Welcome back to The AI Shift. This week we’re coming at the AI and jobs question from a slightly different angle, with a look at how the explosion of AI not as a technology but as an industry and new set of occupations is causing a rapid brain drain in one particular corner of the labour market.

John writes

Until now, here at The AI Shift we have generally considered the impacts of AI on jobs and on higher education separately, but today we’re digging into new evidence that brings the two together. Fresh off the presses at the University of Chicago, a new study found the AI talent arms race is rapidly pulling top researchers (and research) away from academia and into the tech industry, with notable downstream impacts both for universities themselves and for the production and sharing of scientific knowledge more broadly.