The little-known forces quietly killing the college degree

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm David Greene, in for Shumita Basu.

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  Today, is college still worth it?

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  Earlier this year, New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang

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  was doing his taxes with his wife

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  when he started to think about the contributions

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  they were making to their children's college savings accounts.

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  He lives in the Bay Area,

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  where there is a lot of talk

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  about how AI will fundamentally alter higher education,

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  and he wondered what that might mean

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  for his nine-year-old daughter,

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  who will be graduating from high school in 2035.

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  My question was just like, should I keep contributing to this thing?

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  Is my nine-year-old really going to go to college?

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  Or at the very least, is the landscape of higher education

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  going to look very, very different here in 10 years?

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  This personal inquiry became a premise

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  of a deeply reported series for The New Yorker

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  about the viability of the American university system.

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