If you teach your kids to be curious, to be independent, to be self-confident, you teach them how to think, I don't know what the future holds, but I think that those are going to be skills that are going to be important in any configuration of the future.
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Emotional regulation is still really, really, really important. That's probably the thing that I think about the most in terms of what I want my kids to learn.
Most people don't have that skill right now. People who work at Anthropic are very, very highly skilled. They've been trained in data analysis or software engineering or AI, and whatnot. You can get there, anyone can get there, of course, by learning the concepts, but most people don't have that skill right now.
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