Sal Khan
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Oct 28, 2026
David DemingHOST
Bill Gates says that AI could be as good a tutor as any human ever could.
David DemingHOST
Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, said that AI could be the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen.
David DemingHOST
Sam Altman called ChatGPT an e-bike for the mind.
David DemingHOST
And yet, a survey of the Harvard class of 2026 found that 43% of graduating seniors believe that AI harmed their education.
Grant SandersonNARRATOR
There is a formula, and if you feel like that's something you need to know, you should practice with a few matrices.
Grant SandersonNARRATOR
Or, you know, go watch Sal Khan work through a few.
Grant SandersonNARRATOR
Honestly, though, I don't think that those computations fall within the essence of linear algebra, but I definitely think that understanding what the determinant represents falls within that essence.
Grant SandersonNARRATOR
Here's kind of a fun question to think about before the next video.
Sal KhanGUEST
Yeah, we believe that.
Sal KhanGUEST
but the solution here is educators need to take a step back and say what are the things that we really need to make sure that students can do truly on their own and some of the stuff we're making kids do is busy work that they don't really but if we okay and I do think they really know how to do math on their own they have to be able to write on their own they have to They will use AI better that way.
Sal KhanGUEST
You proctor those things.
Sal KhanGUEST
You make them do it in class.
Sal KhanGUEST
So my view is when you Fix those, and then on top of that, when you do the blanket ban like in New York or LA, I don't think it's the end of the world for an eighth grader or younger to not see AI, but we are starting to see some areas where AI can push your thinking harder, make you explain your reasoning.
Sal KhanGUEST
Instead of having a multiple choice question, having to explain things out loud.
Sal KhanGUEST
Those kids aren't going to get that opportunity.
Sal KhanGUEST
And then if you're a high school student, and you don't have access to it, you're going to go to Dartmouth next year or some other college and the kids with more resources are already gonna know how to deploy agents and their parents are gonna tell them about Claude and this and that and your internship's going to expect that and I think you might be at a disadvantage.
Natasha SingerGUEST
You have a startup that is both a nonprofit education group, but also with the leaders and the skills to apply startup and social media marketing and audience generation skills to education, and I don't think we've ever seen anything like it.
Natasha SingerGUEST
I mean, you can think about Sal Khan's first TED Talk about learning by video, and that was a huge sensation, but I think that the code.org efforts are different and somehow have a much larger scale, and so-
Alex SarlinHOST
Because they hit at the structure of how schools operate and teach, or because of how widely it was adopted as a movement? What do you think makes it unique?
Natasha SingerGUEST
I think if you start from the origin story, right? In 2013, code.org designed and launched a viral video, right? And it stars Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and pop stars will.i.am, right? And-
Christian FerkoGUEST
And this is why people are very excited about string theory.
Christian FerkoGUEST
I mean, when I first saw this as an undergraduate, I was reminded of a quote by Sal Khan who said, if this does not blow your mind, then you have no soul.
Christian FerkoGUEST
It's such a beautiful result, which is why this is why people are excited about string theory as a theory of quantum gravity.
Christian FerkoGUEST
Now about this finiteness, so I think I've tried to argue that string theory combines quantum mechanics and gravity in a consistent framework.
Elise HuHOST
That's coming up next.
Elise HuHOST
And stick around after the talk for a brief conversation between Noor and TED's vision steward, Sal Khan.
Elise HuHOST
All this right after a short break.
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Our partners at TED are Sal Khan, Logan McClure Davda, Helen Walters, Roxanne Hilash, and Daniela Belarezo.
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Richard DasherHOST
Right.
Radhika ShahGUEST
And on that, Salman Khan, he, when he shares his life story, it's very relevant to this point.
Radhika ShahGUEST
He had the ability to do a for-profit, and the reason he chose a non-profit in his case is he felt he could execute way more effectively.
Richard DasherHOST
Uh-huh.
Matthias WaltherGUEST
Yeah, we will have Muslims come here.
Matthias WaltherGUEST
We have a, a entrepreneur, actually Sal Khan from Khan Academy, entrepreneur out of Silicon Valley who wrote us a raving letter about the museum and that every Muslim needs to come here to check out the museum.
Matthias WaltherGUEST
Just because of the way that we approach things and tell the story, it was attractive for him and he actually learned something about, you know, where he is at and what his connection to the Bible is.
Matthias WaltherGUEST
So our mission statement is that we want to invite all people to experience the transformative power of the Bible.
Ken BrownGUEST
So a lot of the questions I have revolve around, how do we prepare people to do that properly, to do that in ways that benefit themselves rather than self-sabotage? And there's so much going on here.
Ken BrownGUEST
We had the great fortune to have Sal Khan come to campus.
Ken BrownGUEST
I had dinner with him.
Ken BrownGUEST
I interviewed him on stage.
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