Education Futures
A podcast about the future of education in the age of AI. It brings together interdisciplinary voices to explore how we can shape more desirable futures for learning.
Episodes
Purpose before tools: a values-led AI plan for schools
Alison "Ali" Gellett leads The Big AI Project at the Oasis Big Education Institute. The project aims to give every school in the UK and the Republic of Ireland what it needs to approach AI safely, ethically and strategically. Ali has 30 years of experience in educational leadership across teaching, multi-academy trust (MAT) executive leadership and local government. She is a Fellow of the Royal So
Does it really work? Evidence over hype in EdTech
Dr. Ola Ozernov-Palchik is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and, more and more, how AI should (and shouldn't) be used to help it. She is a Research Scientist at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a Research Assistant Professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, and Associate Director of Translational Research in
Metacognition first: teaching kids to use AI well
Dr. Nicholas "Nick" Zufelt is Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts. He was recently appointed Resident Scholar in AI and Education at the school's Tang Institute. He trained as a mathematician, earning a graduate degree and completing a postdoc, then decided research wasn't his path and chose the classroom over a data-science care
Beyond the AI hype: fixing literacy in India
Merlia Shaukath is the Founder and CEO of Madhi Foundation, a Chennai-based nonprofit working to end the foundational learning crisis in India's public schools. She studied Economics at Stella Maris College in Chennai, then earned an MSc in Area Development Studies from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Governance and Management from the London School of Economics. Her grandfather was a socia
Anti-Values: Designing AI that knows what not to do
Dr Malak Sadek is Course Director and Teaching Associate at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches the Conversational AI module of the MPhil in Human-Inspired AI. She holds a PhD in Design Engineering from Imperial College London's Dyson School of Design Engineering. Her thesis, Designing Responsible AI: Integrating Human Valu
Inside TUMO: walk-away pedagogy and an AI that asks for help
Pegor Papazian is Chief Development Officer at the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, the innovative after-school programme for teenagers that was founded in Armenia and has now become a global phenomenon. He trained and practised as an architect before switching to computer science at MIT, where he was a member of the AI Lab.He founded a Barcelona firm doing computational GIS and urban planni
Educating a generation of changemakers in the age of AI
Zoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE), which she launched with Rae Sikora in 1996 after teaching environmental and animal-protection courses to twelve- and thirteen-year-olds at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. She holds an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and an M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.Over ne
Raising the floor: literacy, AI, and equity in India
Dr. Dhir Jhingran is the Founder and Executive Director of the Language and Learning Foundation (LLF), one of India's leading organizations working on foundational literacy and numeracy. Before founding LLF in 2015, he spent three decades in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), India's premier civil service, including senior policy roles in the Ministry of Education, before taking voluntary re
Can AI build human connection instead of replacing it?
Julia Freeland Fisher is Director of Education Research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, the nonpartisan think tank built on Clayton Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation, where she has spent 13 years making the case that who students know matters as much as what they know. She holds a BA from Princeton and a JD from Yale Law School — a credential she cheerfully calls "a very expensiv
Teens, AI, and the conversations we are not having
Laura Zimmermann, Ph.D., is the Director of Youth AI Research at Common Sense Media, where she leads research within the newly launched Youth AI Safety Institute — the first independent safety lab dedicated to testing how AI products affect children. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology at Georgetown University with a concentration in Human Development and Public Policy, and was an Institute of Educ
Inside England's digitized curriculum, built for AI
John Roberts is the Chief Executive of Oak National Academy, an NGO publicly funded by England's Department for Education to build a free, fully digitised national curriculum for England's schools. A former secondary school teacher and senior leader in the North West of England, he built his first reputation outside the classroom by founding Edapt in 2011, an independent edu-legal support service
What the AI debate misses about the Global South
Dr. Maria Mercedes "Didith" T. Rodrigo is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where she directs the Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences (ALLS) and co-heads the Ateneo Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Laboratory. For over two decades she has studied what students actually do and feel while learn
Building schools where 25 Million have none
Zia Akhter Abbas is President & CEO of The Citizens Foundation (TCF), one of the world's largest privately-run networks of formal schools for low-income children and the largest private employer of women in Pakistan. He came to education sideways: an IB diploma at Lester B. Pearson United World College in Canada, an MBA from LUMS, then seventeen years in senior business and risk roles at Citi
Africa's learning crisis and the AI agency divide
Dr. Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili is Founder and President of Human Capital Africa, an accountability and advocacy organization devoted to Africa's foundational learning crisis — getting every child reading, writing and counting by age 10. An economic policy expert and chartered accountant by training, she was a co-founder of Transparency International and later served in the Nigerian government as Mi
Africa's 800+ languages and the AI data gap
Dr. John Mugo is the Chief Executive Officer of Mizizi Elimu Afrika, the African-led education organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, formerly known as Zizi Afrique Foundation. He holds a Doctorate and a Master's degree in Special Needs Education from the University of Hanover, Germany, and a Bachelor of Education (Music) from Kenyatta University, where he went on to chair the Department of Special
Redesigning school for the AI age
Dan Effland is the Chief of Staff & Strategy at Summit Public Schools, where he leads the continued evolution of Summit's school model. He holds a Master's in Special Education from Dominican University and a Master's in Public School Building Administration from Columbia University's Teachers College.Before entering education, Effland spent over a decade as a professional musician in Chicago.
Designing ethical AI characters for kids
Dr. Sonia Tiwari is a children's media researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Director of Research at Oki Pie Lab. She holds a PhD in Learning, Design, and Technology from Penn State University, along with an MFA in Animation and a BS in Film, credentials she first put to work as a character designer in the video game industry before turning to research on how children bond with charac
Inside a student-led movement for AI Literacy
Ian Cho graduated from St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and heads to Yale University this fall to study cognitive science. Frustrated that AI had quietly become a "taboo subject" wrapped in cheating anxiety, he founded what is now called Sailing (Student AI Literacy Interscholastic Navigator Group), a peer-led initiative that gives students across schools a space to talk openly ab
When AI meets grassroots education in India
Dr. Rukmini Banerji is one of the world's most influential figures in grassroots education. Trained as an economist — a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and a PhD from the University of Chicago — she chose classroom-level work over academia, returning to India in 1996 to join Pratham, one of the world's largest education NGOs, where she served for over a decade as CEO before recently stepping into the rol
A maker's guide to creativity and AI
Christine Braun is the Chief Creative Officer of Cresconova, the education charity behind Cresconova Labs, a hands-on studio for ages 8–16 in Chelsea, London. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts and a Master of Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts, a grounding in material-making that runs through everything she's built since.Her path began with founding Robots for Kids Too, a
Can AI leapfrog India's learning crisis?
Gouri Gupta is Senior Project Director for EdTech at Central Square Foundation (CSF), one of India's leading education nonprofits, based in New Delhi, where she has led the EdTech portfolio for nearly a decade. A Chartered Accountant (rank holder) and IIM Bangalore MBA, she began her career at the Boston Consulting Group before helping build the National Skill Development Corporation, a Government
Designing safe & pedagogically sound AI
On building safe, pedagogically sound AI for young people and the fellowship we built to do it. This fellowship is for builders of AI x education products or anyone thinking to do so in the future.https://educationfutures.ai/fellowship https://educationfutures.substack.com/
No grades, no homework: inside a self-directed school
Dr. Tyler S. Thigpen is the co-founder and Head of School at The Forest School: An Acton Academy, a self-directed K3–12 microschool in Trilith, near Atlanta, Georgia, and co-founder of the Institute for Self-Directed Learning. He holds a doctorate in Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, an
Why AI should (and can) make schools more human
Robin Lake is Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), based at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. For more than two decades she has been one of the most respected systems thinkers in American education — researching charter schools, district–charter collaboration, portfolio strategy, and urban school reform, and testifying before the U.S. House Educ
Funding evidence-based applications of AI in education
Kumar Garg is President of Renaissance Philanthropy, the science-and-technology philanthropy he co-founded with Tom Kalil in 2024 to help donors invest in high-impact research across AI, climate, and education. He holds a BA from Dartmouth and a JD from Yale Law School, and cut his teeth over eight years in the Obama White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he led the administrat
Why teachers should not reject AI without trying it
Maureen Russo Rodriguez is coming up on her 20th year as an educator and teaches language and literature — primarily Spanish, with occasional turns in English — at St. Mark's School, a small boarding school outside Boston. With a background in comparative literature and a stint in higher ed, she co-founded AI Co-Lab, a teacher-led, peer-to-peer network for building AI literacy. What began with a s
Why kids & teens get attached to AI, and the risks
Dr. Mathilde Cerioli is a cognitive neuroscientist working at the intersection of child development, AI, and public policy. She holds a Master's in child psychology from Paris and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Université de Montréal, where her research focused on using board games and video games to improve cognitive functioning in children and adolescents, including those with learni
Two students on AI, cheating, and the future of work
Henry Scott studies at the London Interdisciplinary School (lis.ac.uk), pursuing a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods, and will be part of the school's third graduating class. Dyslexic since childhood, he turned early to AI dictation tools to help articulate his thinking — a habit he credits with sharpening his own unassisted writing over time. At LIS he took an
Wartime lessons: Ukraine's bet on AI in education
Oksana Matiiash is the CEO of WINWIN EdTech Center of Excellence, Ukraine's national hub for technology and innovation in education. Launched in December 2025 under Ukraine's Global Innovation Strategy, the Center generates evidence through research and foresight and pilots education technologies, including AI, while Ukraine navigates a full-scale war. It also brings together government, educator
Alpha School: 2 hours of academics, the rest for life skills
MacKenzie Price is the co-founder of Alpha School and the AI-driven 2 Hour Learning model that powers it, a Stanford-trained psychologist who left the traditional path the day her daughter came home from second grade and said, simply, "school is boring."In 2014, working alongside the colleague she still calls "the OG, the Original Guide," Price opened the first Alpha campus in Austin, Texas, betti
What AI is doing to a generation of disengaged kids
Jenny Anderson is an award-winning journalist and author with 25 years in the field, including a decade covering finance at The New York Times — where she won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2008 for her coverage of Merrill Lynch ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. She later pioneered coverage of the "science of learning" at Quartz, and now contributes to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washingto
What "no tech sundays" can teach us about AI
Bethany Koby-Hirschmann is a designer, social entrepreneur, and co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of Fam Studio, a research and design practice based in Somerset, England. She holds a BA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath, and is completing a PhD on youth co-creation and the uses of enchantment. In 2012, after fin
Education Futures Live: AI & Education Meetup (London)
This special episode is a recording of a live panel discussion from the AI & Education Meetup series, hosted by Education Futures at the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS).Svenia is joined by four guests at the intersection of AI and learning: Ash Brockwell, LIS associate professor and lead of the new Education Futures master's; Niccolò Pescetelli, LIS associate professor leading the AI &am
Why we can't teach AI Literacy yet
Justin Reich is an Associate Professor at MIT and Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, author of Failure to Disrupt (Harvard University Press), host of the TeachLab podcast, and the force behind The Homework Machine — a landmark 7-part podcast series investigating what's really happening with AI in classrooms across the US.We asked him, one of the most respected education technology researche
Measuring the real impact of AI in education
What does it actually take to know if an AI tutor is helping kids learn? Bibi Groot, Chief Impact Officer at Eedi Labs, has spent her career answering exactly that question — first at the Behavioral Insights Team (aka the Nudge Unit, co-founded with Nobel laureate Richard Thaler), then in classrooms across the UK and Latin America.In this episode, Bibi walks us through how Eedi's diagnostic engine
Making AI safe for children before it's too late
Anne-Sophie is the co-founder and Executive Director of everyone.ai, a Silicon Valley nonprofit bridging artificial intelligence and developmental neuroscience. She is also the Chief Program Officer of iRAISE (International Research-driven Alliance for AI Serving Every child), the global coalition she launched at the Paris AI Action Summit alongside 11 governments, UNESCO, UNICEF, and companies in
Future of work: A Gen Z wake-up call
Kashyap "Kash" Rajesh is 20 years old, a Junior at Cornell University studying Information Science and Government with a minor in AI, and he's been working in AI policy since he was 14.He supported the founding of Encode, a non-profit originally founded by young people, focused on how AI is impacting the public and particularly the next generation, which grew to 40 states and every inhabited conti
Sorbonne's AI college for humanities students
What if AI education wasn't just for engineers and computer scientists, but for every student, regardless of their field? That's exactly the bet Camille Salinesi is making at one of the world's most iconic universities.Camille is a full professor of computer science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he has been based since 1999. A specialist in requirements engineering and appl
A Philosopher's case against AI
In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Dr. Alex Carter, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, and Director of Creativity Research at the Centre for AI Interaction. Alex holds a PhD in philosophy from Essex — with roots in Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language — and has become one of the UK's most provocative thinkers at the intersection of
Measuring what actually matters in Edtech
Dr. Asyia Kazmi, OBE spent 12 years teaching mathematics in some of London's toughest schools, and she loved every minute of it. She went on to advise the UK government, work at PwC, lead Global Education Policy at the Gates Foundation, and is now CEO of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education, https://www.wise-qatar.org/), a Qatar Foundation initiative that convenes the world's leading minds
Making computer science tangible for children
Linda Liukas spent her early career surrounded by engineers in Silicon Valley, working at Codecademy and dreaming of a different kind of computer science education — one that felt tangible, joyful, and human. In 2014, she launched a Kickstarter for Hello Ruby, a children's storybook teaching the big ideas of computer science through characters and storytelling. She asked for $10,000. She got nearl
SuperSkills: The 7 human skills AI can't replace
What skills will remain irreplaceable as AI takes over more and more of the work we do? That's the question that led Rahim Hirji to write SuperSkills — a book about the human capabilities that will define who thrives in the age of AI.Rahim has spent over two decades at the intersection of technology and education. He ran Maths Doctor, one of the UK's first online tutoring businesses. He co-founded
AI, companions & EdTech: A VC's perspective
What separates an AI companion from an AI agent? And when does a "sticky" learning app actually make you smarter?In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Rhys Spence, Head of Research & Platform at Brighteye Ventures — one of Europe's leading EdTech and future-of-work VC funds, with over €220 million under management.Rhys shares the key insights from Brighteye's report Me, Myself and My A
From AI readiness to human flourishing
What if education wasn't about delivering content, but about preparing young people for human flourishing in the age of AI?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson sits down with one of the earliest visionaries on AI in K-12: Babak Mostaghimi. Back in 2019, long before ChatGPT, he convinced one of the largest school districts in the US that AI would be a Netflix-style disruption for edu
MOON: A new pedagogy for the age of AI
What does education need to become when AI can replicate most of our cognitive abilities, and what human skills must we protect, develop, and teach now, before it's too late?In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Delphine Le Serre, engineer turned behavioral scientist, founder of EdHu 2050 and creator of the MOON Pedagogy.After starting her career in microelectronics, Delphine gave her firs
Socratic Dialogue in the age of AI
What can Socrates teach us about artificial intelligence? In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Alexander Montag, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy finishing his doctorate at Tulane University, and soon to teach at St. John's University in New York as well as to conduct research at the New School for Social Research. Together they explore the concept of Socratic dialogue.We unpack what
When teachers become co-architects of AI
What if teachers stopped being passive consumers of AI, and started shaping how it's built?In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Stephen Jull a true EdTech veteran who started his career teaching in the remote woodlands of Northern Canada, went on to co-found GeoGebra GmbH — the free dynamic mathematics software that reached over 500 million users worldwide — and now leads EdTech and AI st
A new blueprint for AI in higher education
What does it actually look like when a higher education institution takes AI seriously, as something to integrate into the very design of how students learn, are assessed, and grow?In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with the founder of Forward College, Boris Walbaum, who walks us through one of the most concrete and thoughtful AI-in-education frameworks we've encountered. From an in-house AI
How AI chatbots reshape children's brains
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson sits down with Pilyoung Kim, Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and Director of the Center for Brain, AI, and Child (BAIC). Pilyoung's research bridges developmental science and AI design to understand how generative AI is shaping the social, emotional, and neural development of children.We dive into:Why general-purpose chatbots
Protecting children in the age of AI
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson sits down with the founder of the Safe AI for Children Alliance, Tara Steele, a former intelligence officer who spent a decade assessing long-term risks before turning her attention to one of the most urgent and least-discussed issues of our time: the impact of AI on children.From conversational AI optimized for intimacy (not just attention) to d
Is AI safe for children? Inside KORA's benchmark
What happens when millions of children start talking to LLMs every day and no one knows whether it's safe?In this episode, Laurent Jolie sits down with Stéphie Herlin, co-founder and Research & Product Lead at KORA, the first independent, non-profit, open-source benchmark measuring how safe LLMs are for children. Before KORA, Stéphie spent 8+ years as a government economist, then moved into ed
AI in education: separating the hype from the evidence
In this episode, Svenia Busson sits down with Wess Trabelsi, a Tech Integration Specialist at Ulster BOCES in New York, where he supports eight rural school districts. Wess is neither a cheerleader nor a doomsayer when it comes to AI in education, he's something rarer: an evidence-driven practitioner who actually read the research.Wess shares his deep dive into the science (or lack thereof) behind
Teaching and measuring soft skills in the age of AI
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson is joined by Michaela Horvathova, founder of Beyond Education and former policy analyst at the OECD.For more than a decade, Michaela has worked on an important and misunderstood challenge in education: how to define, develop, and assess metacognition and soft skills.As AI makes knowledge abundant and easily accessible, these competencies are beco
Rethinking assessment in the age of AI
What does it mean to assess learning in a world where AI can generate answers instantly?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson is joined by Alina von Davier, Chief of Assessment at Duolingo, and Elie Bechara, who works on institutional partnerships for the Duolingo English Test.Together, they bring a rare combination of assessment science, product innovation, and real-world university
From knowledge to durable skills: rethinking higher education
What should universities teach in the age of AI?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with Art Markman, Chief Academic Officer at Minerva University and a leading expert in cognitive science, decision-making, and learning.With a career spanning academia, research, and applied learning design, Art brings a powerful perspective on how education must evolve — not just to keep up
The trust crisis in education and the role of AI
What happens when students start trusting AI more than their teachers?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with Mary Burns, researcher at the Brookings Institution and co-author of the report “A New Direction for Students in an AI World: Prosper, Prepare, Protect.”With over 40 years of experience in education — from classroom teaching to advising ministries of education acros
AI in education: a conversation with an 11-year-old
What if we asked children how to design the future of education?In this special episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson is joined by Selena Marwaha, an 11-year-old builder, coder, and speaker who has already presented at global events such as COP28, COP29, and WISE Summit Qatar.She is joined by François Taddei, co-founder of the Learning Planet Institute, whose work focuses on collective intel
Rethinking Edtech: where is the evidence?
Are we building educational technology faster than we can prove it actually works?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with Natalia Kucirkova, professor at the University of Stavanger and co-founder of the International Centre for EdTech Impact.Natalia has spent years researching how children learn, and how digital tools can (or cannot) support that process. Her work sits at
What schools must protect in the age of AI
What should we protect in education, as AI transforms how we learn, think, and work?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with Nick Krichevsky, a high school teacher and Head of Digitalization at the German International School Johannesburg in South Africa.With over 15 years of teaching experience across Germany and South Africa, Nick brings a grounded, classroom-based perspec
Rethinking university in the age of AI
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with education entrepreneur Ed Fidoe, founder of London Interdisciplinary School and co-founder of School 21 in London.Ed has spent the last decade building new kinds of educational institutions from the ground up. His work challenges one of the core assumptions of higher education: that students should specialize in a single discipline.I
Peace building and education in the age of AI
In this episode, Svenia Busson speaks with Guila Clara Kessous, a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Harvard teacher, about the intersection of art, education, and peace-building. They explore how performing arts and literature can heal trauma and how "diplomatic entrepreneurship" can help the next generation navigate a world shaped by AI and social media.Key Topics Guila’s Journey: From performing arts
How Khan Academy is designing AI for learning
In this episode of Education Futures, we speak with Kristen DiCerbo, Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy, where she leads the teams responsible for content, product design, assessment, and learning science.With a PhD in educational psychology, Kristen brings a rare perspective to the AI conversation: learning science first, technology second.We explore how Khan Academy is building Khanmigo, its
AI, literacy, and the global learning gap
By 2050, Sub-Saharan Africa will be home to nearly 1 billion people under 18.Today, 90% of 10-year-olds in the region cannot read a simple paragraph (according to the World Bank)What happens when artificial intelligence accelerates, but foundational literacy remains out of reach for millions of children?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson speaks with Paul Atherton, founder of Fab A
AI governance and child safety in education
AI is already in classrooms. The real question is: who is responsible for governing it?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia Busson sits down with Clara Hawking, founder of Kompass Education, to explore what AI governance actually means for schools and educators.As governments roll out new regulations, including the EU AI Act, schools are facing urgent questions around compliance, safety, p
How AI exposes inequities in modern schooling
In this episode of Education Futures, host Svenia Busson sits down with Ken Shelton, a 20-year teaching veteran and global thought leader in educational technology. Drawing from his experience working with schools in over 50 countries, Ken challenges the "all gas, no brakes" approach to AI, as well as the knee-jerk "ban and block" mentality seen in many governments.Key topics discussed in this epi
Insights into Estonia’s OpenAI rollout
In this episode of Education Futures, we explore the "AI Leap"—Estonia's ambitious national strategy to roll out a specialized version of OpenAI across the entire country. Our guest, Jaan, is a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Tartu who is leading the scientific team overseeing and evaluating this project.Unlike standard implementations, Estonia has collaborated with OpenAI to
Using AI as a motivational translator
In this episode of Education Futures, host Svenia Busson sits down with Alex Sarlin, the founder of EdTech Insiders and Global Edtech lead at the ASU GSV Summit . With over 15 years of experience at giants like Coursera and Skillshare, Alex provides a masterclass on where learning is headed in the age of generative AI.Alex challenges the dystopian view of AI as an isolating force, arguing instead
Why hope is our greatest educational asset
In this episode, we sit down with François Taddei, Chief Exploration Officer of the Learning Planet Institute, to discuss the radical shifts needed in global education. François shares his vision of "ethical dream-weaving"—the process of building futures that are a nightmare for no one—and argues that in a world of polycrisis, hope and collective wisdom are the only tools that can truly scale.Key
Translating AI research into educational reality
AI in education is evolving at a pace that often overwhelms teachers, school leaders, and policymakers. New tools appear weekly. Research lags behind practice. Hype fills the gap.So how do we make good decisions when certainty is impossible?In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia is joined by Chris Agnew, who leads the AI Hub for Education at the Stanford Accelerator for Learning.Chris brings
AI denial is the real risk
In this episode of Education Futures, we welcome Louis Rosenberg — technologist, entrepreneur, and long-time researcher in virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.Louis has spent decades building technologies designed to augment human intelligence and warning about the risks when we fail to understand what we are building.In this conversation, we focus on a phenomenon Louis
Education for the stewardship of the commons
What is education actually for, in a world where AI can increasingly do things for us?In this episode of Education Futures, recorded at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris, we sit down with Seth Frey, professor at UC Davis working at the intersection of computer science, social science, and self-governance.Seth’s work focuses on a rarely discussed question:what skills do humans need to run thin
When AI forces Universities to face reality
What if artificial intelligence isn’t the real threat to higher education?In this episode of Education Futures, we speak with Michael Burgess, a sharp and uncompromising voice on the future of higher education, to unpack a provocative idea:Universities don’t have a technology problem, they have a strategy problem.Michael argues that AI isn’t breaking universities.It’s revealing what has been broke
Imagining better futures in the age of AI
Are we really living through the worst moment in history, or are we actually in the best position ever to build a better future?In this episode of Education Futures, we welcome Beatrice Erkers, Existential Hope Program Manager at the Foresight Institute.Beatrice works at the intersection of technology, long-term thinking, and societal progress, helping people move beyond doom narratives to imagine
A student's take on learning in the age of AI
What does school look like through the eyes of a 15-year-old who actually uses AI to learn, not just to finish homework faster?In this episode of Education Futures, Laurent & Svenia sit down with Hudson, a high school student from San Diego who is already doing computer science education research, and working with a UCSD mentor on learning science–informed approaches to teaching.Hudson shares
Why teach coding in the age of vibe coding
Is learning how to code still relevant when AI can generate code for us?In this episode of Education Futures, we sit down with Dora Palfi, founder of imagi, to explore what computer science education should become in an AI-driven world — and what must not be lost along the way.Dora has a background in computer science and neuroscience and has spent years working at the intersection of education, t
🇩🇪 A youth dialogue on keeping the future human
(EPISODE IN GERMAN - FOR THE ENGLISH SUBTITLES CHECK OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://youtu.be/tiLh9Jq1ApU)In dieser preisgekrönten Folge der Podcast-Serie "A youth dialogue on keeping the future human" spricht Gastgeberin Svenia Busson mit drei Schülern aus Berlin und Hamburg: Flor (13), Luca (15) und Sofia (15). Während sich die globale Debatte oft auf zukünftige Risiken konzentriert, leben diese Sc
🇫🇷 A youth dialogue on keeping the future human
(EPISODE IN FRENCH - ENGLISH SUBTITLES AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/iR5IhYTjYA4)Dans cet épisode de la série primée "A youth dialogue on keeping the future human", Svenia Busson s'entretient avec trois élèves français : Alaïs (11 ans), Sarah-Léa (15 ans) et Arthur (16 ans). Alors que beaucoup craignent une IA dangereuse ou "méchante", ces jeunes redoutent quelque chose de plus subtil : q
🇺🇸 A youth dialogue on keeping the future human
In this episode Svenia sits down with Hudson (15), Joseph (15), and Violet (17), high school students in San Diego and members of their high school’s AI Club.She decodes Anthony Aguirre’s "Keep the Future Human" essay and ask these high school students burning questions around AI. Moving far beyond surface-level tech talk, they tackle the hardest ethical questions facing Silicon Valley today.In th
🇬🇧 A youth dialogue on keeping the future human
In this special award-winning series for the Future of Life Institute's Keep the Future Human contest, host Svenia Busson sits down with teenagers from across Europe and the US.In this episode, host Svenia Busson sits down with three international students based in Paris and Barcelona: Emma (13), Jack (14), and Hector (16). Moving between metaphors of movies and video game controllers, they tackle
AI Safety: Protecting kids, schools, and society
In this episode of Education Futures, Svenia & Laurent speak with Erin Mote, Co-Founder and Executive Director of InnovateEDU, about the urgent intersection of AI safety, youth online protection, and the future of learning systems. Erin, a leading technologist and policy voice — and a mother of two — explains why safety must come first in the EDSAFE AI Alliance framework and why protecting chi
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