If self-made billionaire Mark Cuban was starting college right now, he'd choose philosophy as his major over accounting. That's because he strongly believes artificial intelligence will automate many jobs involving technical tasks, such as an accountant's. Jobs that rely more on personal judgement, critical thinking and creativity — skills more often associated with a liberal arts degree — are less at risk, he says. "Knowing how to critically think and assess them from a global perspective I think is going to be more valuable," Cuban said, speaking at SXSW in March, "than what we see as exciting careers today which might be programming or CPA or those types of things."

Postdoctoral scholar, Scott Kuinversa demonstrates the capabilities of the Atlas robot during the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Demo Day on April 6, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Ann Hermes | The Christian Science Monitor | Getty Images

While liberal arts majors such as philosophy, sociology or English have been deemed some of the worst in terms of job prospects, Cuban says that they will be more valuable in the future. Google exec Jonathan Rosenberg, adviser to Alphabet's CEO Larry Page, agrees. "I think that Mark Cuban is right," Rosenberg tells CNBC. "We need more traditional liberal arts grads."

Google executive Jonathan Rosenberg and executive Chairman EricSchmidt, co-authors of "How Google Works." Rob Kim/Getty Images

Jobs that require strong cognitive abilities and analytical thinking will be very difficult to replace with AI, according to the Google exec, who previously was the SVP of product for the company. "I would tell people to follow their passion, even if it's in something that doesn't have an obvious job prospect," Rosenberg says, "but teaches you how to think."

We need more traditional liberal arts grads. Jonathan Rosenberg adviser to Alphabet CEO Larry Page