AI industry should measure how much it depends on pre-trained PhDs
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-07-22
The industry may rely less on PhDs than people assume
The reply suggests that, to understand the future labor market, one should quantify how much industry depends on:
- already-trained PhDs
- or people hired earlier and trained internally to reach similar performance
The broader point is that the number of PhDs available to industry may be significantly smaller in the future, so companies may need to rely more on internal training pipelines and less on credentialed hires.
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