I’m an AI founder. Here’s the career advice I give my kids

I have the unusual experience of spending my working life building and scaling artificial intelligence while going home to two teenagers trying to imagine their place in the future it’s creating. They’re just starting to figure out what they want their lives to look like, and their questions are shaped by a world changing by the day. Those questions are also way more practical than you’d imagine. Is university worth it? Will a particular career still exist? Do I need to learn to code? Being an AI founder makes me optimistic and realistic. I see both what AI can do and what it can’t. It has also changed the career advice I give my kids. I can’t tell them which jobs will be safe, but I can help them prepare for jobs and careers that don’t stay still. Here are the three things I keep coming back to. 1. Learn to think and then use AI to get better, faster I tell my sons that getting an answer isn’t enough. They need to know whether it’s any good and what to do with it. I have a simple test when it comes to AI for schoolwork: Can they explain the answer, challenge it, and apply it in a different context without the tool? If they can, AI has helped them learn. If they can’t, it has help…