Google AI veteran says PhDs, law and medical degrees may become obsolete in AI era. Here’s what matters more now

While Silicon Valley seems to be going gaga over AI talent, with researchers and engineers getting millions of dollars in offers from tech companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Google, Jad Tarifi, who founded the first generative AI team at Google, said in a recent interaction that he would not encourage young people to get a PhD in order to get in on the AI hype.

In an interaction with Business Insider, Tarifi said, “AI itself is going to be gone by the time you finish a PhD. Even things like applying AI to robotics will be solved by then. So either get into something niche like AI for biology, which is still in its very early stages, or just don’t get into anything at all.”