Public Dialogue

We believe that shaping the future of education requires broad, inclusive conversations not just expert debate. Our public dialogue work reaches parents, teachers, youth and education leaders with the ideas that matter.

A podcast exploring desirable futures for education

Our bi-weekly podcast explores what desirable futures for education and learning look like in an AI-driven world. It helps adult audiences parents, teachers, and education leaders make sense of how learning must evolve.

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Launched October 2025 Bi-weekly episodes 🏆 Prize winner

Recent episodes: "Teaching and measuring soft skills in the age of AI" · "Rethinking assessment in the age of AI" · "From knowledge to durable skills: rethinking higher education"

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Bi-weekly episodes exploring the future of education in the age of AI.

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Future of Life Institute
🏆 KTFH Creative Contest
Prize Winner 2025

We won the Keep the Future Human creative contest!

From middle schoolers debating video game metaphors to high school students critiquing the "bystander effect," this trilingual podcast series captures the unfiltered voice of the next generation. These students prove that keeping the future human starts with giving them a voice.

Youth Dialogue participants
▶ Watch the trailer on YouTube
A 4-part series

A Youth Dialogue on
Keeping the Future Human

We are racing to build a superintelligent AI but we haven't asked the next generation what they think. This 4-part series gives the microphone to 12 teenagers across Europe and the US, capturing their unfiltered verdict on the race to superintelligence.

Visit the Contest's website → ▶ Watch on YouTube

Kids Ask AI

A youth-led podcast series where teenagers aged 12–16 interview leading AI researchers, AI labs product leaders, and thinkers shaping the technologies that will define their future.


Ten episodes in which young people don't just ask questions — they bring the lived perspective of the generation most directly affected by AI, offering rare direct insight into how they understand, use, and feel about these technologies.

Our objectives
Give young people a genuine voice in the public AI debate
Build critical thinking and agency around AI among young audiences
Produce freely accessible content that informs educators, parents, and policymakers
Expected impact
Policymakers & regulators

Rare, direct insight into how young people use AI, what they understand, and what they expect — enabling more inclusive, youth-aware policymaking.

Teachers & youth organisations

A practical toolkit with discussion prompts, exercises, and activities to support AI literacy through guided conversations with young people.

AI product teams

Qualitative insights into how young users experience AI tools and what their expectations are — essential for ethical, human-centred design.

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Bi-monthly reflections on AI and education drawn from what we hear, read, and see across the field.