Grad student on AI upending academia: prestige jobs may only have 2 years left

aisafetycompute · x · 2026-10-13

A graduating social sciences student says he has no idea what he'll be doing in six months: academia across social sciences, STEM, and humanities is 'cooked,' and it's too late to apply for prestigious jobs, which he believes have less than two years left anyway. His fallback: writing in solitude in the woods.

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