a16z: $650K on kids' education buys no career safety as AI tears through law, math, medicine
a16z · x · 2026-09-23
a16z amplified "Would we send our kids to HAA?", a joint essay by Alex Danco and Packy McCormick written as two dads, timed to the launch of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy.
Key points:
- "There is no safe career path today," and no set of schools or degrees that can guarantee safety into the 2040s and 2050s.
- Pushing kids into math looks silly when AI is "tornadoing through" the field's hardest open problems; law and medicine are equally exposed, and nobody knows what a good job will be in fifteen years.
- The essay argues parents are effectively paying $650K just to get kids into a good high school and college — a chain every link of which AI may break.
- Their alternative: expose kids to many things early, then help them go deep on what excites them most.
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