Sue Khim on AI Tutors and the Value of Thinking for Yourself

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Brilliant co-founder Sue Khim argues that educational technology should strengthen students’ thinking rather than replace it. She describes Koji, Brilliant’s AI tutor, as designed to preserve the time and effort students spend working through problems themselves. Her claim about how students currently use AI is her view, not evidence established in this short clip.

1Technology should support learningKhim says technology should help children become stronger thinkers.
2The gym analogyShe compares using AI to skip learning with having a robotic arm lift weights on one’s behalf.
3A tutor designed around effortKhim says Koji is intended to preserve the time students spend thinking for themselves.

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Khim argues that students benefit from doing the thinking involved in learning.
She compares outsourcing that work to letting a robotic arm lift weights at the gym.
She says Brilliant designed its AI tutor Koji to protect students’ own thinking time.

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Protecting the thinking process

Khim explains the goal she sets for an AI tutor.

Sue Khim argues that technology should strengthen children’s thinking. She compares using AI to skip the work of learning to bringing a robotic arm to the gym to lift weights. She says Brilliant designed its tutor Koji to preserve the time and effort students spend thinking independently.