Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out

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> She’s lined up a contract gig as a technical writer at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit focused on AI safety research, where she helps with newsletters and research papers.

> His brother, roommate and girlfriend have also taken leave from Harvard for similar reasons. The three of them currently work for OpenAI.

> Jared Mantell, who was studying economics and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis before dropping out to focus full-time on his startup dashCrystal, which aims to automate design of electronics.

Is it really "Fear of AGI" making such a change? As a dropout myself (twice, oof) these sound like the usual where you undervalue the degree in favor of action.

I'd agree with Graham though that in the face of AGI, your degree is worth more, not less? It all sounds a bit irrational to me.