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ChatGPT Needs Pre-Built Skills For Personal Finance Guidance

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ChatGPT for personal finance is interesting, but you need to know what questions to ask and have enough experience to fact-check assumptions. It really needs to ship with some pre-built skills to help guide people to productive use cases & give the AI better instructions as well

4:49 PM · May 16, 2026 View on X

ChatGPT for personal finance is interesting, but you need to know what questions to ask and have enough experience to fact-check assumptions.

It really needs to ship with some pre-built skills to help guide people to productive use cases & give the AI better instructions as well

11:49 PM · May 16, 2026 · 20.2K Views

Personal financial decisions are full of assumptions, & the AI, as smart as it is, makes some of these without enough context. In addition to the skills, a system prompt that drives the AI to interview you to ensure that it understands your personal situation would be helpful too

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

ChatGPT for personal finance is interesting, but you need to know what questions to ask and have enough experience to fact-check assumptions. It really needs to ship with some pre-built skills to help guide people to productive use cases & give the AI better instructions as well

11:49 PM · May 16, 2026 · 20.2K Views
11:56 PM · May 16, 2026 · 8.6K Views

One use case that is interesting is to ask it to build an interactive scenario simulator, with appropriate visualizations, so that you can explore different retirement outcomes, etc. depending on how your financial situation changes.

Ethan MollickEthan Mollick@emollick

Personal financial decisions are full of assumptions, & the AI, as smart as it is, makes some of these without enough context. In addition to the skills, a system prompt that drives the AI to interview you to ensure that it understands your personal situation would be helpful too

11:56 PM · May 16, 2026 · 8.6K Views
11:57 PM · May 16, 2026 · 7.7K Views
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