Can AI Replace Teachers? Inside the $40M Company Using AI Tutors to Teach 200% Faster | #233

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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The hosts spotlight Alpha Schools' exponential leap: AI mastery academics in 2 hours daily - top 1% SATs - plus life skills workshops to thrive in an AI world. With CEO Mackenzie Price and principal Joe Lamont, they dismantle failing systems for a 10X future. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends Learn about Alpha School: https://alpha.school/ Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 MacKenzie Price is the co-founder of Alpha School Joe Liemandt is principal at Alpha School Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack Spotify Threads Connect with McKenzie X Instagram Linkedin Connect with Joe X Linkedin Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on December 9th, 2025 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If we're going to recreate school that's going to get our kids ready for the AI age going forward, first principles, what would you do?
0:07.3	The first and most important, which is the most radical thing we say is...
0:12.0	U.S. high schoolers at our historic lows in reading math and science, Americans today perceive college as far less important. Today, college graduates, they're the
0:23.6	longest being unemployed. That's not sustainable. We've known for 40 years how kids could learn
0:30.5	two, five, or ten times faster. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in a teacher in front of a classroom
0:34.8	model. We've really figured out how to use technology to deliver these really incredible learning results
0:41.3	and do it in a fraction of the time.
0:43.3	Is everything perfect? What do you guys worry about?
0:45.3	I love what you're doing. I just understand what's the flip side of the equation here.
0:49.3	You know, the biggest issue...
0:52.3	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
0:58.0	Everybody, welcome to Moonshots.
0:59.5	Today, we're going to be speaking about the future of education and the role of AI in education.
1:04.6	And this is not just for K through 12 university.
1:07.6	It's also for re-skilling, right?
1:09.7	Something that this rapid pace of AI is going to require
1:12.6	every major company to start doing soon enough. This is a topic that we've been very outspoken
1:19.6	about here on Moonshot, specifically how secondary and post-secondary education is failing us.
1:26.8	It's failing our kids.
1:27.8	It's not preparing them for the near term,
1:30.3	let alone the medium-term horizon.
1:32.3	We're going to be diving into a new education model
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