AI in Schools: Should It Be Banned? | MagicSchool AI Founder Adeel Khan

Adeel Khan was a Teach For America teacher, opened Conservatory Green High School in Denver in 2017, and later managed principals at the district level. Then he built MagicSchool. It reached a million educators in four months, and today more than 8 million educators have signed up. That’s more than twice the number of teachers in the United States.

Dan opens with the big question: should schools treat AI like social media and keep it out? Adeel’s answer is that the bans in Los Angeles and New York City remove AI from the one place where responsible adults can teach kids to use it well. Kids from families with means will learn it anyway. Dan compares it to the study of NHL players born just after the youth hockey cutoff, where a small head start compounds every year. The results back Adeel up. In Aurora Public Schools, students using MagicSchool’s writing feedback tool posted 28% year-over-year growth on state writing scores. The district’s top MagicSchool users also matched its top-growth teachers almost one for one, and Stanford is now studying them.

Plus, the 13-year-old who wanted to stop AI from taking his job until he learned he could build his own video game, how Dan modeled a $60 million building purchase in Claude without opening a spreadsheet, and why Adeel tells parents that choosing Alpha School means “electing your child into an experiment.”

Learn more about MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai

Order Dan's book — Bandwidth: The Untold Story of Ambition, Deception, and Innovation that Shaped the Internet Age and Dot-Com Boom: dan-caruso.com/book

Listen to Dan’s song Stretch: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dancaruso/stretch

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