When the CEO has been using Claude for 18 months and the CFO runs financial scenarios through Gemini weekly, what exactly is a graduate bringing to the table? That's the question this episode forces. We're predicting what AI will bring us for 2026. 

[00:00] — "AI Ready" banners and cheap signals [01:43] — 3D chess: who designs the board?

 [02:46] — What "AI Ready" should actually mean [05:00] — Stanford Medicine's Clinical Mind AI 

[06:02] — China made AI literacy mandatory. We're still running workshops. [06:41] — The C-suite catches up

 [08:04] — Shopify's prove-AI-can't-do-it hiring policy [09:03] — IMF: entry-level jobs down 29% since 2024 

[10:10] — The Facebook literacy gap, round two

 [12:06] — 83% use AI, 27% trust it 

[13:35] — Assessment as the real battleground 

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