This week’s post is a kind of counterpoint to last week’s post about the job prospects of math majors; competition between AI and Wall Street have driven up wages for math majors who are seeking non-academic jobs.
The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of Jacob Coxon, a former International Mathematics Olympiad participant (representing the UK) and Cambridge math major who worked in commodity training and then for OpenAI and Anthropic before dramatically quitting over fears about the lack of guardrails on AI’s development.
