💡 Sal Khan believes AI can be used for positive transformation in education, by providing every student and teacher with an amazing AI personal tutor and AI teaching assistant, respectively.
💡 The use of AI personal tutors can potentially turn average and below-average students into exceptional students, based on the results of Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 2 sigma study.
💡 The AI personal tutor and teaching assistant developed by Khan Academy are moderated, recorded, and do not provide answers to questions.
💡 The AI personal tutor is able to identify and address student misconceptions in math and programming exercises, while also providing context-specific explanations and feedback.
💡 The AI personal tutor is not limited to exercises but can also answer questions about the context of videos and help students understand why they need to learn certain topics.
💡 Khan Academy’s AI software can switch between student mode and teacher mode, where it turns into a teacher’s guide that can explain the answer, how to teach it, help prepare teachers for the material, create lesson plans, progress reports and eventually grade.
💡 Using large language models (LLMs) as-is turns the application into a commodity, and making it magical requires a lot of work behind the scenes.
💡 The AI can dramatically improve its ability in math and tutoring if it is allowed to think before it speaks.
💡 Khan Academy aims to address the 2 sigma problem, dramatically accelerating education with AI.
💡 Khan advocates for active participation in AI’s impact on education and regulation to ensure the guardrails are in place to avoid dystopian outcomes where bad actors have better AI than good actors.
