The implicit assumption is that these AI-company jobs were recently created and indicate the start of a trend.

Chalmers is stating that there's more demand for philosophers with the right sort of training to work at AI companies (whatever that is) than there are philosophers with that training. (I don't really believe this, but that's what he says.)

He's making this claim for two reasons: (1) to respond to the argument (not directly stated in the article, but quite commonly understood to be sound in the profession field) that it's unwise to get a PhD in philosophy because there are not enough jobs and (2) to suggest that if you do want to get a PhD in philosophy and use it professionally, you'd be wise to study with Chalmers at NYU in order to get placed into these tech-industry jobs.

more than half a dozen, probably, so safe to say there could be as much as ten.

Romney was even pretty centrist, to the point that Obamacare was based on Romney's plan. A similar analogy would be if only a half dozen employees in some field were willing to vote for Fetterman.

I suppose that makes sense if you assume that people who aren't right wing must be Marxist.

I'm neither and am labelled left wing because I think everyone deserves some basic level of life and dignity.

At this point I wouldn't consider Romney "rightwing", more of a centrist by current standards. Heck, the president probably thinks Romney is a socialist.

> I also don’t think you will find many Marxists in corporate law .

I imagine you'd find more than average, actually. You have a front-row seat to how the sausage is made.

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Bit of a tangent, but it's fun to think about how much it takes to become a -er, -ian or -ist in a given field. Philosophy is probably one of the hardest, you need to be seen as up there with the all-time greats. In history or physics you probably need to be faculty, in economics you need to have a PhD, in engineering you don't even need a degree but you need to be practicing,...

The title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.

Agree 100%