Sep 30, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Advay, a Texas high school senior, is closing the AI and robotics education gap in underserved communities through his nonprofit, Open Robotics and AI. In this episode, we talk about how he built it…
Natalie SilversteinHostAdvayGuestI think there's so much fear around it, you know, and I think the school systems are grappling with how to deal with it in terms of preventing cheating, right? We don't even need to go down this road, right? We all need to create our own work and we need to be good writers and be able to write sentences on our own and our college essays and all of the things, right? You're a rising senior, you know exactly what I'm talking about here.
But I think to ignore it or to act like it's all bad is really putting our heads in the sand, don't you think? I mean, we have to embrace it and to also see the great power that it has to make our lives more efficient, to make research a little easier.
And again, we need to be able to teach young people how to actually do real research with primary sources and all that good stuff.
But tell us a little bit more about what you view as the real benefits or the power or the positive things about AI.
I think this episode could actually maybe help people to stop demonizing it so much and looking at it as only like a cheating tool, which is I think what a lot of people think it is, which I don't think that's right.
Yeah, exactly what you're saying.
Like I view AI as kind of like a double-sided sword where there's a bad side and a good side.
Like, for example, I think the last one I was able to kind of show a tool called a notebook LM.
Essentially, what that AI tool is, is you give different resources such as different websites, newsletters, news, and you give it all the inputs.
And what it would do is it would give you information based just off of that.
And even in that website, you're able to make its own podcast, make a mind map.
There's different education tools that kind of come out of that.
I think that's the main purpose of Ori is kind of teach the efficient and safe way of using AI.
And you know, it's funny, I remind people that there were so many tools that we use now safely, the telephone, frankly, the cell phone, the computer that people were afraid of when they first came out because they didn't know what they were and they thought it was going to replace humans and all of this crazy stuff.
And there's this expression, I'm sure you've heard it many times, garbage in, garbage out, right? That, you know, you have to give an AI tool a specific information and accurate information if you're asking it to create a spreadsheet for you or a report or a newsletter, as you pointed out.
And it can help to expedite all of that if you give it good information and you answer the questions or ask the right questions of it.
But then once it has created whatever the thing is, a human being has to look at it again.
And so it's never going to truly replace people, but people just know how to use it, to use it properly.
Do you find when you're talking to young people that you have to do a little bit of this sort of coaching and teaching in terms of having integrity around it and using it properly? I am worried that young people are seeing it as a shortcut to not having to do their homework, right?
Like, that's actually one of the things, like, in the beginning of each event, like, I asked, like, AI, what do you think about it? Like, some students are like, I use it to do all my homework.
I'm like, okay, that's, I guess, a purpose.
I think there's so much fear around it, you know, and I think the school systems are grappling with how to deal with it in terms of preventing cheating, right? We don't even need to go down this road, right? We all need to create our own work and we need to be good writers and be able to write sentences on our own and our college essays and all of the things, right? You're a rising senior, you know exactly what I'm talking about here.
But I think to ignore it or to act like it's all bad is really putting our heads in the sand, don't you think? I mean, we have to embrace it and to also see the great power that it has to make our lives more efficient, to make research a little easier.
And again, we need to be able to teach young people how to actually do real research with primary sources and all that good stuff.
But tell us a little bit more about what you view as the real benefits or the power or the positive things about AI.
I think this episode could actually maybe help people to stop demonizing it so much and looking at it as only like a cheating tool, which is I think what a lot of people think it is, which I don't think that's right.
Yeah, exactly what you're saying.
Like I view AI as kind of like a double-sided sword where there's a bad side and a good side.
Like, for example, I think the last one I was able to kind of show a tool called a notebook LM.
Essentially, what that AI tool is, is you give different resources such as different websites, newsletters, news, and you give it all the inputs.
And what it would do is it would give you information based just off of that.
And even in that website, you're able to make its own podcast, make a mind map.
There's different education tools that kind of come out of that.
I think that's the main purpose of Ori is kind of teach the efficient and safe way of using AI.
And you know, it's funny, I remind people that there were so many tools that we use now safely, the telephone, frankly, the cell phone, the computer that people were afraid of when they first came out because they didn't know what they were and they thought it was going to replace humans and all of this crazy stuff.
And there's this expression, I'm sure you've heard it many times, garbage in, garbage out, right? That, you know, you have to give an AI tool a specific information and accurate information if you're asking it to create a spreadsheet for you or a report or a newsletter, as you pointed out.
And it can help to expedite all of that if you give it good information and you answer the questions or ask the right questions of it.
But then once it has created whatever the thing is, a human being has to look at it again.
And so it's never going to truly replace people, but people just know how to use it, to use it properly.
Do you find when you're talking to young people that you have to do a little bit of this sort of coaching and teaching in terms of having integrity around it and using it properly? I am worried that young people are seeing it as a shortcut to not having to do their homework, right?
Like, that's actually one of the things, like, in the beginning of each event, like, I asked, like, AI, what do you think about it? Like, some students are like, I use it to do all my homework.
I'm like, okay, that's, I guess, a purpose.
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