Education Futures

About Education Futures

What’s next for education in an AI-driven world?

Education Futures is a media platform dedicated to imagining long-term, human-centered futures for education in the age of artificial intelligence. We believe that in a world where AI evolves faster than policies, tools, or even pedagogical practices, the most urgent work is not to follow what’s trending, but to ask: what do we want our education systems to become?

Through interviews and an interdisciplinary exploration, we gather insights from a wide range of voices: educators, policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs, philosophers, scientists, and more.

Our goal is to confront the future with intention—beyond today’s capabilities or hype cycles—and to surface ideas that can help us collectively prepare the next generations for an AI-driven world.

We’re not here to merely document what’s already possible. We’re here to help shape what could and should be.

The Education Futures Podcast

What is AI doing to our kids' brains?

Gregoire Borst
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Education, Paris-Descartes University
Episode available here.

Translating AI Research Into Educational Reality

Chris Agnew
Director, AI Hub for Education (SCALE), Stanford University
Episode available here

Empowering teachers in the age of AI

Diana Knodel
Founder & CEO, fobizz
Germany's largest Professional development platform for educators
Episode available here

Imagining better futures in the age of AI

Beatrice Erkers
Existential Hope Program Director at the Foresight Institute
Episode available here

AI Safety: Protecting kids, schools, and society

Erin Mote
Chief Executive Officer at InnovateEDU
Episode available here

What Is Education For in the Age of AI?

Chris Bush
Churchill Fellow, AI Consultant, High School Teacher
Episode available here

AI Literacy: The New Foundation of Education

Corey Layne Crouch
Chief Program Officer at AI for Education, Former teacher and school leader
Episode available here

How to think critically in the age of AI


Tom Chatfield
Tech Philosopher, Author, Speaker
Episode available here

A Father and AI engineer on parenting in the age of AI

Samuel Path
Senior AI engineer at Shopify, father of four
Episode available here.

Why teach coding in the age of vibe coding

Dora Palfi
CEO, imagi
Episode available here

A student's take on learning in the age of AI

Hudson Mitchell-Pullman, high school student
Episode available here

Why denying AI’s power is dangerous for our kids

Louis Rosenberg
Founder & CEO Unanimous AI, Bestselling Author
Episode available here

Education for the stewardship of the commons

Seth Frey
Computational Social Scientist, Associate Professor at UC Davis
Episode available here

When AI forces Universities to face reality

Michael Burgess,
Higher Education Strategist
Episode available here

How AI exposes inequities in modern schooling

Kenneth Shelton
Former teacher, Bestselling author, education strategist and consultant
Episode available here

The trust crisis in education and the role of AI

Mary Burns
Independant Research Consultant, The Center For Universal Education Brookings Institution
Episode available here

Rethinking assessment in the age of AI

Alina von Davier
Chief of Assessment, Duolingo, Senior Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Episode coming soon

Why hope is our greatest educational asset

François Taddei
Co-founder and Chief Exploration Officer, Learning Planet Institute
Episode available here

Using AI as a motivational translator

Alex Sarlin
Co-founder, Edtech Insiders, Global Edtech Lead, ASU GSV
Episode available here

Rethinking Edtech: where is the evidence?

Natalia Kucirkova
Co-founder of the International Center for Edtech Impact & professor at the University of Stavanger
Episode available here.

How Khan Academy is designing AI for learning

Kristen DiCerbo
Chief Learning Officer, Khan Academy
Episode available here

Insights into Estonia’s OpenAI rollout

Jaan Aru
Associate Professor at the University of Tartu, evaluating the Estonian AI Leap Strategy.
Episode available here

AI governance and child safety in education

Clara Hawking
Co-founder and executive director, Kompass Education, AI governance expert
Episode available here

AI, literacy, and the global learning gap

Paul Atherton
Founder, Fab AI, former DFID education advisor
Episode available here

Peace building and education in the age of AI

Guila Clara Kessous
UNESCO artist for peace
Episode available here

Rethinking university in the age of AI

Ed Fidoe
Founder, London Interdisciplinary School
Episode available here.

What schools must protect in the age of AI

Nick Krichevsky
High school teacher and Head of Digitalization at the German International School Johannesburg in South Africa.
Episode available here.

AI in education: a conversation with an 11-year-old

Selena Marwaha (with François Taddei)
Global speaker (COP 28, COP 29, WISE etc.), middle school student, climate and technology enthusiast.
Episode available here.

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