Manolis Kellis

Asia, all over the world.

We need to give these kids a chance.

AI might be a way to do that by sort of democratizing education, by giving extraordinarily good teachers who are malleable, who are adaptable to every kid's specific needs, who are able to give the incredibly talented kid something that they struggle with, rather than education for all, we teach to the top and we let the bottom behind, or we teach to the bottom and we let the top

you know, drift off, have, you know, education be tuned to the unique talent of each person.

Some people might be incredibly talented at math or in physics, others in poetry, in literature, in art, in sports, in, you know, you name it.

So I think AI can be transformative for the human race if we basically allow education to sort of be pervasively altered.

I also think that humans thrive on diversity, basically saying, oh, you're extraordinarily good at math.

We don't need to teach math to you.

We're just going to teach you history now.

I think that's silly.

No, you're extraordinarily good at math.

Let's make you even better at math because we're not all gonna be growing our own chicken and hunting our own pigs or whatever they do.

The reason why we're a society is because some people are better at some things and they have natural inclinations to some things, some things fulfill them, some things they are very good at, sometimes both align and they're very good at the things that fulfill them.

we should just like push them to the limits of human capabilities for those.

And, you know, if some people excel in math, just like challenge them.

I think every child should have the right to be challenged.

And if we, you know, if we say, oh, you're very good already, so we're not gonna bother with you, we're taking away that fundamental right to be challenged.

Because if a kid is not challenged at school, they're gonna hate school and they're gonna be like doodling rather than sort of pushing themselves.

So that's sort of the education component.

The other impact that AI can have is maybe we don't need everyone to be an extraordinarily good programmer.