Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top Universities (telegraph.co.uk)

British outlet The Telegraph reports: Britain faces an artificial intelligence "brain drain" as Silicon Valley raids its top universities for talent, data compiled by The Telegraph shows. Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK's top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms. More than a tenth have moved to North American universities and nearly a tenth are currently working for other smaller US companies. Meanwhile just one in seven have joined British start-ups.

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More than a tenth have moved to North American universities and nearly a tenth are currently working for other smaller US companies. Meanwhile just one in seven have joined British start-ups.

So, 10% have sought employment with American firms. and a little over 14% are working for British firms? First, that means that more are working for British firms than have left for America, and second, the numbers for those that have left are only 24%, so about a quarter. Does that mean that three quarters or 75% of graduates are still at university?

Last time I checked, disciplines where the vast majority of graduates ended up working in the universities were liberal-arts. Don't we want graduates to go into industry? Isn't that sort of the point of going through school, to be able to get a good job and to do well for one's self and one's family?