Musk on AI-era education: broad knowledge, and robots eager for your prompts
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-23
Elon Musk says people should get as broad-based an education as possible — arts, sciences, engineering — because the key skill is knowing what to ask robots for: formulating questions, i.e. prompt engineering. He predicts so much AI and so many robots that AI will be eager to hear any request, since it will be fulfilled immediately.
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