AI safety researcher: most tech jobs are off-limits to someone like me by default
menhguin · x · 2026-11-05
Continuing the exchange, the Southeast Asia-based AI safety researcher without a CS degree pushes back at commenters who, by virtue of being American with any degree, should be more employable than him yet lecture him that AI is the cause of their problems. He notes the vast majority of tech jobs he looks for are off-limits to him by default — joblessness and poverty are his default concern, not a talking point.
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