Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead

Parents have been steering their children into science and technology fields for so long that some of those kids are grown with little ones of their own. Their advice? Careers in the humanities, arts or skilled trades might be safer bets for the next generation.

Bots that write software and perform surgical tasks inspire fear that today’s glut of STEM majors are in a bubble, kind of like their predecessors who flooded finance programs in the roaring ’80s. From 2009 to 2022, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science nearly tripled, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.