College Student Career Paths and AI

This study will investigate how advanced college students are imagining their career paths and making career plans while facing uncertainties caused by AI. Semi-structured interviews with approximately 30 students will cover students' major and career choices, career values, short- and long-term career projections, ideas about AI's future influence on their career fields of interest, as well as factors involved in shaping these ideas. It will also examine whether and how ideas about the future of AI and work are shaping career planning and job-seeking behaviors in the present.