Stanford dean says AI labs are competing with universities for faculty: ‘I won’t lie, I worry about this’

There’s a fight for AI talent that’s playing out in the classroom.

Sarah Soule, the dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, told Business Insider that frontier AI labs — with their enormous computing resources, data, and coming IPOs — are becoming an increasingly powerful draw for professors.

“There is an allure for faculty,” she said about the trend. “I won’t lie, I worry about this.”

The pull is already evident at Stanford. Andrew Hall and Chad Jones, two GSB professors, are both on leave this year.

Stanford isn’t the only university with faculty who have decided to work at an AI lab. Soule had just gotten off a public panel with Aaron…