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Any philosophy PhD's transition to artificial intelligence?

I work in philosophy of mind and am looking to transition to a non-academic job after my PhD. I'm very interested in artificial intelligence, has anyone made the career switch? Any advice? 

I see some fascinating jobs in A.I. ethics but would be interested in being involved in many ways. Recommendations for technical skills to pick up? Thanks so much!
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I know of someone who did this in industry (but don't know them well). They did one of those expensive coding boot camps and started off low on the software engineering ladder. Over time you could probably leverage the project management experience from the PhD in combination with the new experience as a software engineer to get a management position. 

I also know someone in academia who works staunchly in philosophy but is learning a lot about AI and is interested in using it for their research. It's a struggle though because there's a lot of background stuff to learn about for AI, while they still have to be producing excellent philosophy work at the same time.

Technical skills: programming in Python, linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics.