What to Tell Your Kids About How to Prepare for AI
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 2 June 2025
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- 2
- Australian
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- 4 June 2025, 12:56 pm
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We asked six leaders for their advice to teenagers about the unfolding AI revolution. Their answers may surprise you.
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The article explores the implications of the AI revolution for the next generation, specifically how young people can prepare for its impact on the workforce. Insights from business leaders, technologists, and Australia’s chief scientists offer diverse perspectives on equipping the youth for a future where AI plays a significant role. It emphasizes the need for adaptability and skills development in anticipation of technological disruptions. Although it offers strategic advice on a personal and professional level, it does not delve into existential or catastrophic risks nor does it focus on specific safety governance or policy measures.
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TechnologyChanticleerPrint articleJun 4, 2025 – 5.00amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginFor anyone with a teenager near the pointy end of high school or university, it’s the sort of question that keeps you up at night: how do you best prepare them for the disruption artificial intelligence will bring to the workforce?The Australian Financial Review AI Summit created a rare opportunity to ask the leaders of very big businesses to career technologists, venture capitalists and even Australia’s chief scientists. For Chanticleer, who has a 16-year-old at home, the answers were invaluable and will hopefully be helpful for anyone who’s trying to assist a young person navigate this brave new world.Loading...James Thomsonis senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine.Connect withJamesonTwitter.EmailJamesatj.thomson@afr.comSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreChanticleerOpinionAI SummitAIPaul BassatMatt ComynFetching latest articlesThe top whisky you can buy without going on a waiting listMax AllenThe luxury travel trend you probably haven’t consideredThe restaurant that’s turning back the clock (in the best way)New MP Mary Aldred urges business to help women into the LiberalsPatrick DurkinAI jobs plateau suggests we’re embracing skillsAn employee stuffed up in a meeting, so this CEO used AI to coach himExtreme hiking in the heart of Australia’s own AmazonNicky CatleyWhen sustainability costs $14,400 per square metreThe new ‘VIP’ travel trend that puts you in your placeLuxury home sales take off as Australians get richerSarah PettyPharmacy chain ‘underdog’ takes the fight to Chemist WarehouseEscalante to buy out investors in his $3.2b online gambling giant