How AI Could Save Education, According To Sal Khan

The last few months have inspired dozens of frantic articles about how AI will kill the student essay, destroy kid's ability to learn and maybe even one day replace teachers. If you want a more clear-eyed and perhaps optimistic view of just how positively transformational AI is likely to be, a good place to start would be with the most recent TED talk from the inventor of Khan Academy, a platform that has already revolutionized the way kids learn.

In this short talk from the 2023 TED conference in Vancouver, Khan demonstrates exactly how AI is being integrated into Khan Academy courses to help students learn. The future he describes is one where AI is trained to act as a "real time personal tutor" for students in a way that can augment their learning as well as assist human teachers to help all kids learn faster and ensure no one is left behind. For anyone concerned about the future of education, this is a must watch ... and if you have kids in school, it's a good talk to watch along with them.