Brave New Words Quotes

“You won’t be replaced by an AI, but you might be replaced by someone using AI”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.—Pablo Picasso”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Now imagine if an AI tutor could “sit” next to students as they navigate the internet in general. Imagine if it were a browser plug-in. The same way that AI might help students better engage with online exercises or videos, it might also help them when they are browsing Wikipedia, YouTube, or the New York Times website. It might reformulate the news article they are reading closer to their grade level, potentially leaving out age-inappropriate details. While students are researching a paper, it might help zero in on material that actually addresses the issue they are investigating. It might also Socratically help a student engage with what they are reading or even provide context that the student needs to better understand the content.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“We are entering a world where we are going back to a pre–Industrial Revolution, craftsmanlike experience. A small group of people who understand engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and design are going to be able to manage armies of generative AI and put all of these pieces together.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The most successful students will be those who use AI to help make conceptual connections for developing ideas. Students who learn to use AI ethically and productively may learn not only at an exponentially higher rate than others but also in a way that allows them to remain competitive throughout their careers. They will have a deeper understanding of the given subject matter, because they will know how to get their questions answered. Rather than atrophying, their curiosity muscle will be strengthened.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The going rate in Silicon Valley, where I live, is roughly four hundred dollars per hour for the top coaches. This can amount to tens of thousands of dollars to assist one student through a college admissions cycle.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The classic components considered in college admissions are grades, standardized tests, extracurriculars, essays, and letters of recommendation. AI will change how most if not all of these factors are valued, developed, and evaluated.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. —Rabindranath Tagore”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Through the years, many people have asked me why I set up Khan Academy as a nonprofit. After all, my previous career was very for-profit, and I live in the middle of Silicon Valley, where scalable tech-enabled solutions can be worth a lot of money. Many have been skeptical whether a nonprofit could even compete with for-profit companies. There were two notions I couldn’t get out of my head, however. First, I tend to believe in market forces, but there are a few sectors—namely, education and health care—where the outcomes of market forces don’t always align with our values. Education and health care are two areas where our shared values tell us that, ideally, family resources shouldn’t be a limiting factor in accessing the best possible opportunities. Most of us believe that every mind and life deserves to reach its full potential.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“I realized that as thrilling as it would be to be an AI researcher now, it was even more exciting to think about how the technology could be applied to help human potential.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Despite being a nonprofit, we have been able to build a team that rivals those of the most resource-rich tech companies. Hundreds of incredibly talented people have committed a major part of their careers to be part of the Khan Academy team, often taking considerable pay cuts to do so. Thousands of volunteers all over the world have now translated Khan Academy into over fifty languages. Inspirational leaders like Bill Gates, Reed Hastings, and Elon Musk have become some of our biggest supporters and advocates. This journey seems so serendipitous that it has become something of an inside joke among the Khan Academy team that perhaps benevolent aliens are helping us so that, through education, we can prepare humanity for first contact.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“During the 2020 school shutdowns, Black and Hispanic households with school-age children were 1.4 times as likely as white households to face limited access to computers and the internet, and more than two in five low-income households had only limited access. A bad prepandemic situation became downright dire. Consider that before 2020, 6 percent of Detroit eighth graders were performing at grade level; afterward, it dropped to 3 percent. The average American classroom in 2019 contained a spread of three grade levels of ability. After the pandemic, this spread expanded to six grade levels of ability.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“This is why I started Khan Academy. The internet afforded us the ability to go directly to every classroom, every student, and every family in the world without having to necessarily navigate the same policy machinations faced by traditional reform efforts. The social return on investment is orders of magnitude more impactful. For example, our team operates on a budget equivalent to some high schools in the United States but reaches more than a hundred million learners a year around the world—and it has the potential to serve billions.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Because AIs aren’t sentient, they can’t be truly empathetic. Empathy involves sensing and modeling other’s emotions and contexts in your own mind. They can, however, simulate empathy quite well. Even with just a chat interface, large language models can interact in ways that are hard to discern from a well-trained, caring therapist. Engineers are augmenting these models with listening, speech, and vision capabilities that can add to the AI’s “understanding” of where the user is emotionally. Perhaps we should introduce a new term, artificial empath, or AE, as a great tool in the fight against loneliness, depression, and anxiety.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. —ANDRÉ GIDE”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Fun They Had” describes a school of the future that uses advanced technology to revolutionize the educational experience, enhancing individualized learning and providing students with personalized instruction and robot teachers. Such science fiction has gone on to inspire very real innovation. In a 1984 Newsweek interview, Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs predicted computers were going to be a bicycle for our minds, extending our capabilities, knowledge, and creativity, much the way a ten-speed amplifies our physical abilities. For decades, we have been fascinated by the idea that we can use computers to help educate people. What connects these science fiction narratives is that they all imagined computers might eventually emulate what we view as intelligence. Real-life researchers have been working for more than sixty years to make this AI vision a reality. In 1962, the checkers master Robert Nealey played the game against an IBM 7094 computer, and the computer beat him. A few years prior, in 1957, the psychologist Frank Rosenblatt created Perceptron, the first artificial neural network, a computer simulation of a collection of neurons and synapses trained to perform certain tasks. In the decades following such innovations in early AI, we had the computation power to tackle systems only as complex as the brain of an earthworm or insect. We also had limited techniques and data to train these networks. The technology has come a long way in the ensuing decades, driving some of the most common products and apps today, from the recommendation engines on movie streaming services to voice-controlled personal assistants such as Siri and Alexa. AI has gotten so good at mimicking human behavior that oftentimes we cannot distinguish between human and machine responses. Meanwhile, not only has the computation power developed enough to tackle systems approaching the complexity of the human brain, but there have been significant breakthroughs in structuring and training these neural networks.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“That very same technology, though, also allows you to stay in touch with friends and family. Whether editing video or writing or coding, it can be a boon for your creativity and a powerful means of self-expression. And closest to my heart, it can be a means to learn and improve yourself.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“For example, our team operates on a budget equivalent to some high schools in the United States but reaches more than a hundred million learners a year around the world–and it has the potential to serve billions”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Fun They Had” describes a school of the future that uses advanced technology to revolutionize the educational experience,”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The Orson Scott Card novel Ender’s Game”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education

“The science fiction writer Neal Stephenson wrote about the potential influence of technology on education in his novel The Diamond Age.”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education