- Bill Gates has taken to social media to tout a new book focused on AI and education.
- The book is authored by Salman Khan, the founder and CEO of the educational platform Khan Academy.
- Gates has been optimistic about AI's impact on education but says we'll still need teachers.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft cofounder and renowned bookworm, has taken to social media to share his latest book recommendation.
Gates touted the book, "Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)," by Salman Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, an educational nonprofit that aims to provide free learning resources.
The book charts how advances in AI will transform education and offers a guidebook for teachers, parents, and students to navigate changes in this "new world," the book description reads.
"If you're passionate about education, you need to read this book." Gates wrote on X. "Sal offers a compelling vision for harnessing AI to expand opportunity for all."
Khan is familiar with the intersection of AI and education; his company is building its own educational chatbot, Khanmigo. It aims to assist students in a variety of subjects, including math, computer science, and writing.
He spoke on the topic in a TED Talk last year. "I think we're at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen," he said. "The way we're going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent, but amazing, personal tutor."
Gates has also been optimistic about AI's role in education. He published a letter last year full of his AI predictions, one of which was that in the next five to 10 years, AI could start delivering educational content tailored to a student's learning style.
But while he said that teachers likely wouldn't become redundant, they might need to learn how to adapt to the new technology.
"It will enhance — but never replace — the work that students and teachers do together in the classroom," he wrote.
