Khan Academy founder Sal Khan on AI and the future of education

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, Sal is a pioneer in the education technology space. With millions of users and billions of views, he’s been recognized as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People,” and now he’s at the forefront of using AI to enrich learning. Sal and Adam have an exciting discussion about the role of AI in the classroom, discuss the opportunities and challenges of designing tools that foster true critical thinking, and share their visions for the future of education.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Got a business problem?
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0:10.4	Stay updated on everything business.
0:12.4	On Ted Business, a podcast hosted by Columbia Business School Professor Modoupe Akanola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.2	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.7	Get some surprising answers on Ted Business, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:32.7	Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.
0:36.9	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Take.
0:40.8	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating
0:44.4	people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
0:53.0	My guest today is Sal Khan, he's the founder of Khan Academy, the nonprofit education
0:57.7	platform that makes knowledge freely available to hundreds of millions of people around
1:02.6	the globe.
1:04.3	Sal has been named one of times 100 most influential people, and he's a pioneer in using technology
1:09.6	to accelerate learning.
1:11.7	So I was excited to talk with him about AI and the future of education.
1:16.2	Earlier this year, he gave a Ted Talk on it.
1:18.9	It can answer the age-old question, why do I need to learn this?
1:21.7	And it asks the critically, well what do you care about?
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