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

Dean Sarah Soule told Business Insider that it's 'super hard to forecast' the school's AI budget. Stanford University Sarah Soule, the dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, sat down with Business Insider. She expressed two big AI-fueled worries: budgets and staffing. Stanford isn't alone. Most school leaders are "really worried about this issue," she said. 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.