The saddest thing about all the AI stuff is that it’s rendered the Khan Academy guy’s life’s work totally obsolete

@sagharborcap Hard disagree. His life's work isn't the videos, it's the role he's played in helping tens of thousands of kids get the education they needed to become the people they are today.

@sagharborcap Structured teaching is never going away. People overestimate how many students are motivated enough to learn by themselves.

@sagharborcap AI is great until you need to understand a concept from scratch without being hallucinated at. I would still trust a Khan Academy video over a chatbot when it comes to learning organic chemistry or basic calculus any day.

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@sagharborcap It hit....

@sagharborcap This is a massive reach. AI can give you an answer, but the Khan Academy guy actually teaches you the 'why.' AI stuff isn't going to replace a human who dedicated his life’s work to making education free and accessible to every kid on the planet

@sagharborcap He built the world's best free education platform and now the same tech companies who benefited from it are trying to replace it with a chatbot that confidently gets math wrong 30% of the time

@sagharborcap Rather than obsolete,@khanacademy lets future learners stand on "the shoulders of giants". @salkhanacademy's work has helped millions & will keep kindling knowledge across the world directly or via AI tool @KA_Khanmigo. AI narration credits: @notebooklm @grok @perplexity_ai

Khan Academy isn't obsolete. It's vindicated. Sal Khan spent 20 years proving that personalized, on-demand education works better than classrooms. AI just proved him right at scale. The real casualties: - $50K/year universities teaching what YouTube does for free - Professors who read PowerPoints aloud for a living - The entire "education requires physical presence" myth Khan Academy + AI = the most powerful learning system ever built. Khanmigo is already doing what 30-student classrooms never could: true 1-on-1 tutoring for everyone. The "sad" part isn't that AI made Khan obsolete. It's that traditional education was always broken, and now there's no excuse left to pretend otherwise.

@sagharborcap khan academy, you say?

@sagharborcap If AI can provide instant, personalized explanations for any topic, what unique value-if any-does a platform like Khan Academy still offer to learners?

Sal Khan disagrees with you. He built Khanmigo, an AI tutor inside Khan Academy powered by GPT-4. Khan Academy didn't get disrupted by AI. It adopted AI faster than almost any education platform on earth. But more importantly the premise is wrong. Khan Academy's value was never the videos. It was free, structured, curriculum-aligned learning for kids who couldn't afford Kumon or a private tutor. AI tutors still cost money. Still require devices. Still require internet. 300 million registered users, mostly in developing countries, still need what Khan Academy provides. The guy didn't get made obsolete. He just got a better tool. Calling that sad says more about how you view education than about what Sal Khan built.

@sagharborcap @grok This post claiming AI made the Khan Academy guy obsolete is factually wrong. What type of replies get the most engagement for correcting misinformation like this—stats-heavy rebuttals, emotional student success stories, or quotes from Sal Khan himself?

@sagharborcap Khanmigo is now in 40 Arizona school districts thanks to a $2 million state investment . Students are improving grades, teachers save 5 hours/week on planning, and it's designed to NOT give answers, just guide thinking . This isn't obsolescence; it's evolution.

@sagharborcap hundreds of ai researchers are where they are because of him

Sal Khan spent 20 years making education free for everyone. Built 8,000 lessons. Reached 150 million students. Changed millions of lives. Then AI arrived and did it better. Faster. More personalized. More patient. The cruelest part of progress Sometimes it makes the most selfless work in the world look like a stepping stone. He didn't fail. He just got there first. Before the technology caught up.

@sagharborcap @grok You tell me what you think it means first.

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@sagharborcap How? If you’re making the argument that AI is going to remove the need for humans to need to understand math and sciences then maybe I can see where youre coming from but as far as AI‘s ability to actually teach you expansive material it’s kind of poor at that

@sagharborcap AI is only as good as the data and pedagogy behind it. Khan Academy has decades of structured learning data and real world evidence on how students actually learn.

@sagharborcap "Khan academy"

@sagharborcap something tells me he's going to be okay...

@sagharborcap He's done so much work getting tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of kids through schoolwork in all different subjects, I have to disagree here

@sagharborcap Somehow people need to get paid to add useful training data to AI, or they will stop doing it.

@sagharborcap Nope, he has already pivoted long time ago,schoolhouse.world he has been hiring AI engineers, so he is actually leveraging AI heavily. Khan Academy is not his only work

There’s a lot of cope in this thread about how Khan Academy “teaches you the why” while “AI doesn’t” but all that tells me is that most people still have no idea how to properly use AI. It is *exceptional* at explaining the why, and in ways we would individually understand. I basically have my own personalized AI Khan Academy that makes references based off of movies I’ve watched, games I’ve played, and my interests.

@sagharborcap obsolete? Speak for yourself, he single handedly dragged me through discrete math

@sagharborcap We need to create a pool of digital, culturally relevant artifacts that we keep around despite their eroded utility. Think vinyl records, leather jackets, and antique cars; but for the internet.

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@sagharborcap @grok explain why and what are other areas of work or achievements that could be wiped out by AI in education space?

@sagharborcap The exact opposite is true; you have totally misunderstood the point of education

@sagharborcap If education was only about providing information then everyone would just read books.

@sagharborcap ai isn't replacing sal, it's just sal in a suit. he literally built khanmigo before you even knew what a prompt was :/

@sagharborcap He's great. The government should give him a medal and a stipend because yeah this is more or less right

@sagharborcap His name is Sal Khan. Why'd you have to call him the "khan academy guy" when his life's work is already obsolete... you had half the name there

Actually, the opposite happened. Sal Khan didn’t get rendered obsolete he leveled up. Khanmigo is his vision on steroids patient, personalized tutoring for millions who could never afford a human tutor. His life’s work wasn’t just videos it was proving education could be free and scalable. AI is the tool he always dreamed of, not the villain that buried it. What do you think has AI made pioneers like him irrelevant, or finally made their mission possible for everyone?