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Sue is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant, an interactive learning platform with 10M+ learners. I asked her how AI can help kids learn without doing their thinking for them, and she played back a real session with Koji, Brilliant’s AI tutor. If you’re building AI products or raising kids, watch how it helps a student work through a mistake without handing over the answer.
We talked about: (00:00) Why AI should make kids think harder (01:34) Why test scores are down while grades are up (09:41) Koji: An AI tutor that won’t give you the answer (18:05) Why humans design lessons and AI builds them (22:25) Primitives: The building blocks behind Brilliant’s AI (29:30) Testing AI lessons with simulated students (32:10) Measuring learning, not lesson completion (34:39) Sue’s rule for competing with the big AI labs (39:10) How to raise kids who enjoy doing hard things
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Where to find Sue: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-khim-70b86014/ Brilliant: https://brilliant.org
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