Opinion | AI’s best use is enhancing human judgment. So study liberal arts.

Greg Weiner, a professor of political science, is the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Judging by the proliferation of programs of study in artificial intelligence, higher education is learning exactly the wrong lesson from that technology’s transformation of the workplace. Artificial intelligence makes purely technical skills less valuable and human judgment more essential. There has never been a more powerful case for the liberal arts, a kind of education that cultivates human discernment.