Sal Khan

Education innovator

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Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization on a mission to provide free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

Why you should listen

From humble beginnings as a YouTube channel offering short educational lessons via video, Khan Academy today offers free courses to more than 150 million registered users around the world. The nonprofit provides learning tools for parents, teachers and kids in more than 50 languages, and they partner with school districts across the US that serve historically under-resourced students. Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, the first AI tutor built on GPT-4 technology and designed around learning science principles.

Khan is also the founder of the Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school in California, and cofounder of both Schoolhouse.world, a nonprofit that offers free tutoring over Zoom, and Khan World School, a nonprofit online high school. He has been profiled by 60 Minutes and was recognized as one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2012. He is the author of Brave New Words, a book on AI to be released in 2024.

Sal Khan’s TED talks

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Sal Khan

Let's use video to reinvent education

Posted Mar 2011

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Let's teach for mastery — not test scores

Posted Sep 2016

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Sal Khan

How AI could save (not destroy) education

Posted May 2023

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April 18, 2023

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May 5, 2017

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