Bonus: Trevor Noah on AI, education, and the future of comedy
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
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Trevor Noah speaks with GeekWire's Todd Bishop after Noah taught a 5th grade class at Ardmore Elementary in Bellevue, Wash., for Code.org's Hour of AI during Computer Science Education Week. The former Daily Show host, comedian, author, podcast host, and Microsoft "Chief Questions Officer" talks about learning AI alongside kids, the importance of maintaining unbridled curiosity, and how artificial intelligence may — or may not — reshape the craft of comedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Todd Bishop from Geekwire here with a quick bonus episode featuring Trevor |
| 0:05.9 | Noah, the former Daily Show host, comedian, author, and podcast host, who also serves as Microsoft's |
| 0:14.0 | chief questions officer. I sat down with him Monday morning after he led a class for code.org's |
| 0:20.6 | Hour of AI during computer science |
| 0:23.3 | education week at Ardmore Elementary School in Bellevue, Washington. We talked about AI, |
| 0:29.8 | education, and the future of a profession near and dear to his heart, comedy. Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:36.9 | Well, that was fun. That was good. Yeah, it was good. I could tell you were really having fun. So you're here at Ardmore Elementary School in Bellevue, Washington, Home of the Eagles. So it's a long way from Maryvale, right? Which is the primary school where you attended in South Africa as a kid. Why is this something that's important for you to take part in? |
| 0:56.0 | And I can tell you were really engaged. |
| 0:58.0 | Like, how is it informed by your own experience growing up as a kid when you come back to a school like this? |
| 1:04.0 | Fundamentally, I always feel like kids have an advantage that we don't as adults, |
| 1:10.0 | and that is they are born into technologies |
| 1:13.1 | that we have to learn right and I always think if we can get them understanding the technology |
| 1:19.9 | on an almost molecular level then they will do things with it that we couldn't possibly imagine |
| 1:27.1 | you know so it's this interesting inflection then they will do things with it that we couldn't possibly imagine. |
| 1:28.3 | So it's this interesting inflection point in tech now where AI is a new tool. |
| 1:34.3 | We don't fully understand the extent of what the tool will or won't be. |
| 1:38.3 | There's conversations that go from, you know, the super-computer, super-intelligence, |
| 1:43.3 | all the way through to just like a standard |
| 1:44.9 | tool, you know, like a search engine or the internet, something that could improve your life. |
| 1:51.1 | And so for me, I think giving as many kids the opportunity to be part of that revolution |
| 1:57.2 | is important so that when they step into the world, they're not now one step |
| 2:02.6 | behind where the world has moved to. And I think we saw that with computer literacy, |
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