OpenAI's CEO on What Kids Should Be Studying

What should kids be learning these days to prepare for an AI future? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Emily Chang on The Circuit.

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[deersakamoto]

I double-majored in Resilience and Adaptability so I'm set for life

[jainishpatel]

He is right about how “learning to code is learning to think”

[terrasai]

Bro just stated all the things AI needs to improve on 💀

[rickgut]

He basically said “study survival of the fittest”. Because we’re all about to get thrown into a whole new world lol.

[darknessmode]

Firearm handling, surviving a nuclear winter, what types of fungi are safe to eat...

[punkkap]

The way he says "We have a new tool" really resonates with me.

[TheGuyCalledCarl]

How do you study "resilience", "high rate of learning", "adaptability" and "creativity"?

[XoloYT]

I'm a CS Major and he couldn't be more correct. By learning how to code it not only helped me to think more logically but helped me understand "structure" even within my own life.

[jamess.]

I think “if you enjoy it” is the key part. Too many people go into software engineering thinking it’s a way to make a quick buck and that’s why the market is so oversaturated with unskilled employees right now. Worst is that it’s so hard to tell the truly skilled from the pretenders.

[real_john_doe]

I'm a PhD student in a STEM field and virtually everyone in my program has dialed way back on learning how to code and now they just tell Chat GPT what they want it to code in a certain language, copy and paste the results into their script, and then stick the results into their work. Not sure how to feel about this, but it definitely doesn't sit well.

[Wannaknowofficial]

Next month I'll be starting my Resilience course at the university. I'm Hoping I can get my masters degree in ADAPTABILITY after that 🙌

[Rope]

As a programmer myself, if you'd like to create things using code, study math first. I regret every day that my math foundation is weak.

[gabrielmora]

There's a difference between learning to code and learning Computer Science. The former is the one that is being threatened by AI, while the latter is what is driving that change

[electronicrepair]

Basically most people in higher positions don't say much.

[matthewboyd]

Coding can teach you simple thing about life

If you try to just make something work trying to go back to it. You're going to make a lot of issues

But if you make it simple enough so that you can easily grow on that simple idea without having to put a lot of work into it, you now understand something about life.

A little bit extra work up front saves a lot of work in the long run.

Thanks Tom Scott for the origin of this lesson, for I couldn't learn code.

[hyunliw]

Resilience will help during job losses, that's what he means

[benbohannon]

Resilience. How to be unemployed. How to scavenge for scraps. Those kinds of skills.

[jammesvqk]

Learning how to CODE, technical and artistic drawing, basic maths, languages, public speaking, writing and reading, history, philosophy, debating, team work, a team sport and music, basic concepts and tasks of the main trades (carpentry, electricity, plumbing, mechanics), basic physics, how money works.

[infiniteascension]

Kids should learn to read, write, speak in front of groups, calisthenics, yoga, meditation, mathematics, music, visual art, chemistry, biology, physics, typing, Linux, HTML, Python, AI tools

[agent]

This Vought interview with next season's villain seems so realistic. Their marketing is really on point