Musk on education in the AI era: go broad, learn to formulate questions for the robots
Brian821 · x · 2026-09-23
In a new CCTV Finance interview, Elon Musk recommends getting as broad-based an education as possible — arts, sciences, engineering, wide general knowledge — because the key skill is formulating the question: knowing what to ask the robots for, i.e., prompt engineering, conveying your wishes to the machine.
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