My university degree was in "Industrial Design and Technology" (~16years ago), an incredibly broad course covering everything (aesthetic design, design for manu

My university degree was in "Industrial Design and Technology" (~16years ago), an incredibly broad course covering everything (aesthetic design, design for manufacturing, material science, UX, UI, electronics, a little embedded C, ergonomics). But the main thing it taught was how to use these tools and skills to build a product that solved a problem. AI is just another tool to enable us to build things that make people's lives better. Sure, it will supersede some older tools, but we aren't going to see it take all jobs away. People still need to plan and steer it to do what we want. Power tools and shop automation didn't end the job of joiner/wood worker. I'm not worried about AI taking jobs, I'm excited how we can use it to enable new classes to product that make our lives better. Just as an artist will have to learn how to work with new paints, but this enables finding new ways of expressing themselves. We just need to learn new ways of "painting" with generative AI.