AI professor's PhD advice: "Have you exhausted literally every other option?"
dioscuri · x · 2026-11-03
AI professor dioscuri shares how he handles students wanting to do a PhD with him: he asks whether they've "exhausted literally every other option," then sarcastically adds that this doesn't apply to his brand-new PhD in AI and Society launching next year, which will supposedly equip graduates for the fully automated post-AGI utopia.
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