2026 Predictions: When the CEO Can Prompt Better Than Your Graduate

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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