That early 21st century career arc of get your computer science degree at a good school, then make a good salary at Google or Meta or another big tech company? That notion may be receding. Even if you think it’s all a bit overblown, some people in the AI industry are already making preparations for a world, and an economy, that look radically different from the ones you’re used to.Ĭlymer’s officemate at the Center for AI Safety was a computer science major at Stanford who also left his program because AI was developing so rapidly. And we’re just living in a different world now,” Clymer said.Īfter ChatGPT made its debut last year, AI has often been compared to other revolutionary technologies: social media, the internet, the printing press. “Get your degree - that’s good advice 10 years ago, five years ago even. So he figures, why waste two more years on a diploma? He wants to work in AI safety now, while he can help prevent catastrophe - and while the job still exists. “Just last week, I told my friend, ‘What the hell are you doing? Did you see GPT-4? You’re not going to have a computer science job,'” Clymer said.Ĭlymer is spending part of his gap year at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit that tries to address your typical nightmare artificial intelligence scenarios: AI-enabled weaponry, the death of truth, that sort of thing.Īside from the possible threat of human extinction, Clymer believes there’s a very high chance that in the next two decades, most jobs are going to be replaced by AI.

He doesn’t think he’s going back.Īs he told a former classmate, he doesn’t see much of a point. Last fall, he decided to take a gap year. Joshua Clymer was a sophomore at Columbia University majoring in math and computer science.

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