Why Education Has to Change
a16z is launching Horowitz and Jason Academy, a new school redesigned for the AI era.
“everything that we've built to train you was built for a world that is soon to no longer exist.”
a16z (Ben Horowitz and Jason Calacanis) announced a new school, the Horowitz and Jason Academy, built to retrain young people for the AI era on the premise that traditional college is poorly suited to getting a job or starting a company. While it signals investor conviction that AI is reshaping education and hiring, it is a venture/education initiative rather than a core AI technology or research development.