If AI is able to cover the listed eight skills essays teach, then we can probably assume that students won’t be using those skills in the workplace either. What will they be doing instead? Teach those skills.

If only the people at the very top of an org chart are now going to be engaging with particular kinds of information (because they will tell AI to do what lower level employees previously did), then that information should only be covered at the postgrad level (and perhaps not even then).