en.Wedoany.com Reported - Anthropic has launched a fellowship program called Claude Corps, paying participants $85,000 to help nonprofit organizations adopt artificial intelligence technology. Meanwhile, China's higher education system is undergoing large-scale professional adjustments, cutting thousands of traditional majors and adding new fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics.
Anthropic's Claude Corps program is a one-year fellowship designed to place early-career professionals in nonprofit organizations to help them integrate AI into their operations. According to the official announcement, Anthropic has allocated an initial $150 million to train 1,000 participants in using Claude and place them in nonprofits across the United States. The first cohort of 100 participants will launch in October 2026, with applications closing on July 17. At least 400 nonprofit organizations will host these participants during the program. Anthropic funds and guides the initiative but is not the direct employer. According to Tech Times, CodePath, a nonprofit that helps first-generation and low-income students enter the tech industry, serves as the formal employer, while Social Finance handles measurement and evaluation. Participants are employed by CodePath with an annual salary of $85,000 plus benefits. The program focuses on practical implementation and does not require prior prompt engineering or computer science skills. Anyone aged 18 or older with less than two years of full-time work experience can apply, regardless of educational background. Participants will help nonprofits identify automation opportunities and improve workflows using Claude.
Notably, the announcement of Claude Corps coincided with the same day Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an article stating that job displacement caused by AI may be inevitable. In the article, Amodei called for a universal basic income funded by taxes on AI companies. He stated that mechanisms like universal basic income could be funded by taxing relevant companies or increasing capital gains taxes. The company framed the fellowship program as a direct investment to help employees adapt to change. However, the program does not prove that jobs are safe; it exists precisely because of disruption.
In higher education, according to data from China's Ministry of Education reported by VnExpress, Chinese universities canceled or suspended 12,200 undergraduate majors between 2021 and 2025 and introduced 10,200 new ones. Over 30% of undergraduate majors have been adjusted. Many canceled majors are in arts, humanities, foreign languages, and management. Meanwhile, new majors focus on artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and data science. Nine universities have introduced a major in "embodied intelligence," a field combining AI with physical systems like robotics. According to WION, this shift is a response to an employment emergency. The youth unemployment rate for the 16-24 age group ranges between 15% and 19%. In 2026 alone, over 12.7 million students are expected to graduate.
AI careers are often associated with roles such as machine learning researcher, software engineer, or data scientist, but these roles represent only a small fraction of the workforce. Greater opportunities may lie with those who understand their industry and know how to apply AI within it. Hospitals need people who understand healthcare and AI, nonprofits need people who understand fundraising and AI, and schools need people who understand education and AI. Domain expertise combined with AI literacy may prove more valuable across industries. Claude Corps operates on this premise, screening participants based on their familiarity with and judgment of AI tools. The most valuable skills may be learning to evaluate AI outputs, design effective prompts, integrate AI into existing workflows, and identify where automation helps and where human judgment remains essential.
Anthropic's program and China's education reforms both indicate that the era of AI disruption has entered a new phase. Anthropic chose a direct investment path, paying people to learn AI. China chose a structural path, fundamentally reforming its education system. Both acknowledge that AI skills have become a basic necessity. However, whether this pace of adaptation can keep up with the speed of disruption remains a question. With 12.7 million graduates in China alone in 2026 and Anthropic's program still limited in scale, the gap between supply and demand for an AI-literate workforce may remain large in the short term. For Indonesian workers, this trend sends a clear signal: AI literacy is no longer just an added value but increasingly a prerequisite for survival and growth in the future labor market. Those who can combine domain expertise with the ability to leverage AI will have stronger bargaining power.
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