Sal Khan says A.I. can help teachers create ‘an exceptional classroom’: Full interview

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In a Meet the Moment conversation, Khan Academy founder Sal Khan tells Kristen Welker that artificial intelligence can empower teachers, personalize learning and help build more effective classrooms, despite growing concerns over its misuse.

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0:00.0	In 2004, Sal Khan, then a hedge fund manager, started tutoring one of his cousins when she needed
0:06.6	extra help with math. He started recording YouTube videos of his tutorials that he then turned
0:12.5	into an interactive, global education platform called Khan Academy. Khan is now pushing the boundaries
0:19.7	of education even further. His book, Brave New Words,
0:23.6	explores how artificial intelligence will transform learning. I sat down with Sal Khan to talk about
0:29.0	Khan Academy and his vision for the future of education. Sal Khan, welcome to meet the press.
0:35.3	Thanks for having me. Thank you so much for being here.
0:38.3	So let's talk about Khan Academy.
0:42.3	You started Khan Academy after you started tutoring your cousin back in 2004.
0:48.3	You were helping her with math.
0:50.3	Now you have over 180 million users worldwide. It's just extraordinary. Bill Gates has
0:58.4	called you one of the most exciting innovators in education. Did you ever imagine Khan Academy would
1:05.5	get to this moment, this point? No. I mean, I definitely have grandiose visions every now and then, but I quickly just, I try to ground
1:15.4	myself.
1:16.4	So maybe I had some daydreams.
1:17.4	But if someone asked me realistically, no, I wouldn't have thought in, you know, 10, 15 years
1:22.0	it would have happened like this.
1:24.6	Well, remarkably, I had the great pleasure and honor of interviewing you back in 2011.
1:33.3	I was just starting my career at NBC News and you were just getting Khan Academy off the ground.
1:39.3	How did you take it to a place where you have hundreds of millions of users all around the world?
1:47.0	Yeah, 2011. We were just, you know, I had quit my day job and set it up as a non-profit in 2009.
1:53.0	We didn't get funding for Khan Academy, philanthropic funding, until 2010. So we were like months into it by the end of 2010. So you probably caught me four or five months.
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