The recent wave of white-collar layoffs may have employees and job seekers rattled, but according to New York University Stern School of Business professor Robert Seamans, his current class of MBA students isn't worried.

"I don't get a huge sense that they're dreading the job market or that they think there are going to be dramatic changes," Seamans told a gathering of technology executives at last week's CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit in New York City. "These students have been in the job market already before coming back to school and they're used to the ups and downs of being in the workforce."

Seamans said his focus in the classroom is making sure students have the skills they need when they graduate, and that includes generative AI and more generally, machine learning.

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