What Terence Tao thinks about AI and jobs

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1. 14 Jun 2025

   Our readingThe stable one-profession career is becoming a thing of the past; what will still be needed alongside AI is reasoning with abstractions and problem-solving when things go wrong.

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   Their wordsIt's becoming much more a thing of the past. So I think you just have to be adaptable and flexible. I think people will have to get skills that are transferable, like learning one specific programing language or one specific subject of mathematics or something. That itself is not a super transferable skill, but sort of knowing how to reason with abstract concepts or how to problem solve when things go wrong.

   ↗Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472youtube.com 16th of 20 in this recording