Amid AI-driven anxiety, researchers advise PhD students to choose excitement over pay
tw_killian · x · 2026-11-02
Yen-Hsieh shares Sharon Yixuan Li's reflections on PhD career anxiety as AI accelerates scientific discovery. Key advice: choose excitement over pay; talk to senior industry people before deciding — many grad students are stuck in a local optimum rushing onto the LLM train; pick directions that are early but growing fast (like LLMs in 2018), e.g. agentic scientific discovery today. Li's blog links to the AI 2027 scenario, which predicts superhuman AI's decade impact will exceed the Industrial Revolution.
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