AI safety jobs are among the world's hardest to land, pushing back on viral mockery
JMannhart · x · 2026-09-11
Responding to a joke that AI safety jobs require no critical thinking and pay well, JMannhart argues they are among the hardest jobs in the world to get: he knows dozens of Harvard/Stanford/Oxbridge graduates who can't land one. Thousands of top young applicants are shut out because general AI capabilities pay far more, the AI industry is huge, and the AI safety field is tiny.
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