at the National Museum of the American Indian’s Rasmuson Theater. The Smithsonian Associates presents an exclusive interview with Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, Tuesday, Oct.

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I don’t have to give the same canned lecture. “It helped instill in the teachers’ minds, ‘Well, I’ve got even more value as an educator. “There’s all sorts of things that you as a human being in the classroom can do that Khan Academy at that time does not do,” Khan said. Khan compared the emergence of ChatGPT in schools to the launch of Khan Academy’s own service in 2008, explaining that new education technologies can support rather than threaten the traditional classroom experience. They should play with it, they should embrace it, and see how we can navigate the future with it.” “The jobs of the future are going to be dramatically transformed by this,” Khan said.

Khan cited six-figure salary offerings from AI companies for prompt engineers, who help train language models like ChatGPT to better assist users. “Should we be banning it for schools where this might be one of the hottest jobs of the future?” Khan said, referencing the growing AI industry. Khan referenced a recent decision by the New York City Department of Education to ban the chatbot - which provides detailed AI-generated responses to user-inputted text prompts - over academic dishonesty concerns, calling the move a “knee-jerk reaction” to the new tool. “This is going to be transformative for potentially what platforms like Khan Academy can do, but also transformative for what education becomes.”

“I think there’s a huge artificial elephant in the room,” Khan said of ChatGPT.

Amaechi ’99, an education lecturer at HGSE. The HGSE hosted Khan Wednesday afternoon as part of its Education Now webinar series, which aims to address the evolving state of education following changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Khan Academy founder Salman Khan told attendees of a Harvard Graduate School of Education webinar that banning artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT in schools is the “wrong approach,” calling the service “transformative” for the future of education.

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