2024 Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series
“AI Won’t Destroy Education, It’ll Save It”
September 10
After the explosion of AI, teachers and parents around the world worried that it would completely undermine education as we know it. But Sal Khan says that doesn’t have to be the case. “We’re at the cusp of using AI for the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen,” he says. Khan uses his extensive experience and thorough research to break down how to use AI in education, from giving every student an amazing personal tutor and every teacher an intelligent teaching assistant, to exploring different methods of learning for students around the world.
Sal Khan
Sal Khan is founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization that offers free lessons in math, science and humanities, as well as tools for parents, teachers and districts to track student progress. Khan Academy is piloting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in Mountain View, California, a cofounder of Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free tutoring over Zoom, and cofounder of Khan World School, a new nonprofit online high school. Khan holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. He has been profiled by 60 Minutes and was recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.
History of Nelson
The Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series has been made possible through the generosity of the family of Bruce J. Nelson ’74. Nelson was a brilliant technologist and leader, who developed the Remote Procedure Call and who, at the time of his death, was the chief science officer at Cisco Systems. The speaker series addresses global technical issues and their social, economic and political challenges.