Code.org co-founder and CEO Hadi Partovi ripped The New York Times for its latest report detailing how some computer science majors are having trouble finding work in the U.S.
In a post on LinkedIn, Partovi said the newspaper and its Monday episode of “The Daily” podcast were cherrypicking anecdotes “to stoke populist fears about tech corporations and AI.”
“Computer science and AI are still the best paying fields one can study,” Partovi said, adding a quote from AI pioneer Andrew Ng about how telling students not to study CS is “the worst career advice ever given.”
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