The Class of 2026 taught themselves AI.
Not because their schools encouraged it. Only 28% say their program meaningfully integrated AI. Many professors banned it outright.
But 85% used it anyway. A third, daily.
Now they’re graduating into a job market where AI mentions in entry-level postings have nearly doubled in a year. Employers expect fluency. Schools didn’t teach it.
So students figured it out themselves.
That’s not a student problem. That’s an institutional failure…
With a silver lining: the next wave of talent entering your organization is self-directed, self-taught, and already adapting faster than the systems around them.
We need institutions who help students develop their brains and help them contend with what an AI integrated world looks like.
Here is the full report: https://lnkd.in/eG7u38q9
Ignoring it or dismissing it is doing a disservice to the next generation.
