{"id":49069,"date":"2026-04-14T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/an-anthropic-cofounders-advice-on-what-to-study-in-college\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:31:11","slug":"an-anthropic-cofounders-advice-on-what-to-study-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/an-anthropic-cofounders-advice-on-what-to-study-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anthropic cofounder&#8217;s advice on what to study in college"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69dd2d914d9d0b20564921ec?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jack Clark speaks at an event\"\/><figcaption>Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark joked that Anthropic is making it a great time to be a philsophy major.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark says his literature degree proved to be a great match for working in AI.<\/li>\n<li>He said the best majors will involve &quot;synthesis across a whole variety of subjects.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Clark pointed out that Anthropic employs philosophers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark says you shouldn&#039;t write off liberal arts majors.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Clark, a former journalist who studied literature at the University of East Anglia, is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What turned out to be useful is that I got to learn a lot about history and a lot about the kind of stories that we tell ourselves about the future,&quot; Clark said on Monday during Semafor&#039;s World Economy Summit. &quot;That&#039;s turned out to be like, extremely relevant for AI in a way that I think people wouldn&#039;t have predicted.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Clark said that the best areas of study are those that have a lot of overlap.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think that majors which are going to become more important are ones which involve like synthesis across a whole variety of subjects and analytical thinking about that,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The best skill, Clark said, is learning how to ask the right question.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The really important thing is knowing the right questions to ask and having intuitions about what would be interesting, colliders, different insights from many different disciplines,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>After repeated pressing, Clark said that &quot;rote programming&quot; is something he would avoid. That&#039;s on brand with his Anthropic colleagues, including Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, who has said the title of software engineer will start to be phased out this year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some people need to know those fundamentals, but we do see that technology move up the stack,&quot; Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, Clark said that majors that may seem mismatched to the age of AI will actually be fairly worthwhile. He pointed out that Anthropic employs philosophers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When was the last time you heard that a philosophy degree was like a great job prospect?&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark joked that Anthropic is making it a great time to be a philsophy major. Bloomberg\/Getty Images Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark says his literature degree proved to be a great match for working in AI. He said the best majors will involve &quot;synthesis across a whole variety of subjects.&quot; Clark pointed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}