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What AI CEOs Are Telling Their Kids

The people building AI are the most worried about what it'll do to jobs. So what are they telling their own children?

The Wall Street Journal asked AI leaders that exact question - their kids range from 6 months to 26 years old. Here's the advice some of them gave:

Double down on being human. Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei - who helps build Claude - says what won't be replaceable is "how you treat other people, how well you communicate with them, how kind you are."

Learn to think, not just to do. Microsoft's chief scientist Jaime Teevan wants her kids developing metacognitive skills: critical thinking, adaptability, the ability to challenge assumptions. Technical skills from today won't be relevant in two years.

The comments were sharp. "Great advice if you have a trust fund to fall back on," "None of this was tangible enough to be of any help guiding my kids and grandkids," "That was a lot of nothing."

The subtext was obvious: the people building the AI disruption are insulated from it. Most people aren't. I think the real objection was that people find it vague, which induces panic in of itself.

Two pieces of advice I found concrete recently:

Ethan Mollick: don't ask "can AI do this?" Ask "can AI do all of this?" A doctor isn't just a diagnostician — they listen, reassure, judge, and take responsibility. AI can help with some of that. Not all of it. Aim for careers that require a breadth of skills.

Scott Galloway: senior care is booming. People over 65 need human presence — someone who shows up. Explore this industry.

Sure, things change every day. We still need a plan every day.

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🇺🇸 A new University of Pennsylvania study found that people followed ChatGPT's recommendations 79.8% of the time even when the AI gave them the wrong answer - researchers are calling it "cognitive surrender." Over 50% of participants chose to use ChatGPT despite it being optional, and many reported feeling more confident in answers they got from the AI, even incorrect ones.

🇨🇭 Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Swiss robotics startup known for its four-legged wheeled robots, to test "doorstep delivery" automation alongside its human delivery drivers. The company had already backed Rivr through its $1B Industrial Innovation Fund and Jeff Bezos' own venture firm, which participated in Rivr's $22M round last March.