I recently had the opportunity to join the board meeting at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. It was a reminder that universities around the world are grappling with the same fundamental question we are at Georgia Tech, how rapidly evolving technology is reshaping our world and what it means for how we lead.

I share my insights here.

Artificial intelligence has already transformed the jobs we once prepared students to do. This is not a future scenario—it is already happening. Universities cannot afford to simply react. We have a responsibility to lead in this moment. We must take the lead in training talent, bringing together stakeholders, and building innovation ecosystem, even if this means changing how we have traditionally done things.

Many of the jobs that were available to our graduates five years ago no longer exist. This requires us to move beyond just training students for tasks that technology can now perform. Instead, we need to focus on what remains uniquely human—critical thinking, moral judgement, and skills for understanding the world and relating to other people. This is not about resisting new tools, but about embracing them and at the same time while redesigning the learning experience to emphasize reasoning, creativity, and problem-solving at a higher level.

In the end, we are called to build environments where innovation can thrive and where graduates are prepared not just to use technology, but to shape it in service of improving the human condition.