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Eamon Carey: Why liberal arts is the new engineering

As AI hits the mainstream, engineers are going to have to collaborate more with others

Hiring engineers will be the most important aspect of AI

Anthropic, which has just raised $300 million (€280 million) from Google, is hiring engineers. Nothing unusual there you might think. The company, started by two former senior OpenAI researchers, is “an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable and steerable artificial intelligence systems”.

These engineering roles command salaries of $250,000 to $335,000 for people who will “figure out the best methods of prompting our AI to accomplish a wide range of ...