The former Google leader says that law degrees and that medicine is a waste of time because they take so long to finish that AI will catch up with his diploma

“The AI itself will disappear when you end a doctorate. Even things like the application of the Robotics AI will be resolved by then,” the founder of the first generative-Ai-Au de Google team told Business Insider.

Tarifi himself obtained a doctorate in 2012, when the subject was much less common. But today, says that the 42 -year -old man says that time would have spent studying a subject more niche intertwined with AI, like AI for biology – or perhaps not a diploma at all.

“Higher education as we know is about to become obsolete,” said Tarifi to Fortune. “Prosperity in the future will not come from the collection of references but from the culture of unique perspectives, agency, emotional conscience and strong human ties.

“I encourage young people to focus on two things: the art of connecting deeply with others and the inner work to connect with themselves.”

The warning of technology for education on the evolution of the tide

Even studying to become a doctor or lawyer may no longer be worth the ambitious Gen Z time. These diplomas take so long to finish in relation to the speed with which AI evolves so that they can make students “throw” years of their lives, added Tarifi to Bi.

“In the current medical system, what you learn at the medical school is so exceeded and based on memorization,” he said.

Tarifi is not alone in his feeling that higher education does not follow the tides of changing AI. In fact, many technology chiefs have recently expressed their concern that the increase in the cost of the joint school with an obsolete program creates a perfect storm for an unpaid workforce.

“I’m not sure that the college is preparing people for the jobs they need today,” Mark Zuckerberg said on Theo von’s Last weekend Podcast in April. “I think there is a big problem on this subject, and all the debt problems of the students are … really big.

“It is somehow this taboo thing to say:” Maybe not everyone needs to go to university “, and because there are a lot of jobs that do not require that … People are probably coming to this opinion now that maybe 10 years ago,” added Zuckerberg.

In addition, the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, said that the latest AI model of his business can already operate in an equivalent way to those who have a doctorate.

“GPT-5 really wants to talk to a doctoral level expert in any subject,” said Altman earlier this month. “Something like GPT-5 would be almost unimaginable at any other moment in history.”

The PHD pipeline with the six -digit job offer remains strong – to now

For existing doctoral students focused on AI, the private sector pipeline remains solid. In fact, in 2023, some 70% of all the doctoral students of the AI took jobs in the private sector, a leap from only 20% two decades ago, according to the MIT.

However, this increase has university leaders worried about a “brain flight” which could result from too many experts who choose to work in technological companies – versus to stay behind and teach the next generation as a teachers.

Henry Hoffmann, president of the IT department of the University of Chicago, recently said Fortune That he saw his doctoral students being courted for decades, but the lures wages have only growed. A student with zero professional experience recently abandoned to accept a “six -digit” offer from Bytedance.

“When students can get the kind of job they want (as a student), there is no reason to force them to continue,” said Hoffmann.