A familiar bit of bureaucratic reasoning, described as "politician's logic" in the British comedy Yes, Prime Minister, goes something like this: Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it.

I suspect some of the rush to create AI courses at colleges and universities reflects this sort of thinking. Universities recognize that artificial intelligence is changing the workplace. They want graduates to be prepared for those changes. Creating a course, or perhaps a sequence of courses, seems like an obvious response.