MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. – One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence at Google is warning the potential doctors and lawyers of tomorrow that AI might steal their futures.

In an interview with Business Insider , Jad Tarifi — the 42-year-old founder of Google’s first generative AI team who left in 2021 to found his own startup, Integral AI — suggested that ever-improving AI capabilities may soon make getting advanced degrees in law or medicine an exercise in futility.

With so many people seeking further education as they get edged out of the job market by AI, Tarifi offered a different perspective: that nobody “should ever do a PhD unless they are obsessed with the field.”

The AI veteran also told BI that he’d advise caution to anyone looking to get into the fields of medicine an

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