Anthropic’s economics chief highlighted the kinds of jobs that could be “killed” by AI, putting labor displacement directly back on the higher education agenda. The warning lands as institutions increasingly face pressure to connect AI learning to employability and risk management rather than treating AI as a narrow technical elective. At the same time, colleges are expanding course and credential pipelines for AI ethics. San Francisco State University, for example, offers a graduate certificate in ethical artificial intelligence, drawing on market signals that demand generative-AI competence and AI ethics expertise across nontechnical fields. For campus planners, the central takeaway is that AI readiness is shifting from generic “AI literacy” toward compliance, bias awareness, privacy protections, and decision accountability—skills that also map to credentialing, employer requirements, and program evaluation.