AI Makes Cheating Easy. Here’s How It Can Make Kids Smarter Instead | Sue Khim

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📌 Copy the AI system I use to run a one-person $1M+ business: https://www.behindthecraft.com 🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ professionals: https://creatoreconomy.so 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 Thanks to our sponsors: Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYang Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craft Wispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang Where to find Sue: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-khim-70b86014/ Brilliant: https://brilliant.org Subscribe to this channel - more interviews coming soon!