{"id":18460,"date":"2025-08-23T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18460\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:07:07","slug":"google-ai-veteran-says-phds-law-and-medical-degrees-may-become-obsolete-in-ai-era-heres-what-matters-more-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18460\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI veteran says PhDs, law and medical degrees may become obsolete in AI era. Here’s what matters more now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

In an interaction with Business Insider, Tarifi said, \u201cAI 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\u2019t get into anything at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarifi himself has a PhD in AI<\/a> from the University of Florida but states that doctoral studies are for \u201cweird people\u201d like he was because it involves sacrificing \u201cfive years of your life and a lot of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone should ever do a PhD unless they are obsessed with the field,\u201d Tarifi told the publication.<\/p>\n

He further noted that with the advancing pace of AI, people can achieve a lot more outside of school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are unsure, you should definitely default to \u2018no,\u2019 and focus on just living in the world \u2026 You will move much faster. You\u2019ll learn a lot more. You\u2019ll be more adaptive to how things are changed,\u201d Tarifi added.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just PhDs that Tarifi warns against doing; he also notes that any degree that takes a long time to complete, like law and medicine, is in trouble, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the current medical system, what you learn in medical school is so outdated and based on memorization,\u201d Tarifi said, while noting that people end up \u201cthrowing away\u201d eight years of their lives for advanced degrees.<\/p>\n

What then, you ask, should one do in order to thrive in the AI age? Tarifi says that they should develop skills and empathy because while hard sciences can be learned, having an expertise at prompting and using AI involves \u201cemotional attunement\u201d and \u201cgood taste.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best thing to work on is more internal. Meditate. Socialize with your friends. Get to know yourself emotionally,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Demis Hassabis on jobs AI can\u2019t replace:<\/p>\n

Tarifi isn\u2019t the first one to talk about the importance of empathy in the AI age. Just a few days ago, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis<\/a> had also talked about how jobs that involve human empathy could not be replaced by an AI system.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Wired magazine, Hassabis said, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things I think we won\u2019t want to do with a machine. You know, I sometimes give this example of doctors and nurses. Maybe a doctor and what the doctor does and the diagnosis, one could imagine that being helped by an AI tool or even having an AI kind of doctor,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Silicon Valley seems to be going gaga over AI talent, with researchers and engineers getting millions of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,16324,289,290,18,16325,823,16323,19,17,16326,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-18460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-jobs","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-gemini-ai","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-google-ai","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-job-right-ai","19":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}