As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are coming to the office with alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through the list of humanities grads instead.

“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.