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“But I think going forward, if you’re a young student, I don’t particularly see a case for doing a PhD in another field if what you want to do is machine learning.”

Dario Amodei 13 October 2025 Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill (80,000 Hours) archived copy

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But I think going forward, if you’re a young student, I don’t particularly see a case for doing a PhD in another field if what you want to…

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Dario Amodei, “But I think going forward, if you’re a young student, I don’t particularly see a case for doing a PhD in another field if what you want to…” (said 13 October 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_8a39dbb42c6a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8a39dbb42c6a

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