This is Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, which has been on the AI enshitification journey for a while now.

Sal Khan in 2023 proudly proclaimed that AI could revolutionise EdTech with highly personalised tutoring, and made Khan Academy go all in on AI with their Khanmigo AI assistant tutor. Part of this ted talk explicitly has the AI pretend to be historical figures for assistance in history.

Three years later, Sal Khan admitted what all teachers already knew: that the AI tutor failed because most students didn’t even both with it. Digging through forums reveals the similar suite of reasons: factual inaccuracies, inability to understand basic arithmetic, and opaque pricing based on “usage.”

Didn’t stop him from partnering with big tech to offer $10K bachelor degrees though.

Sal Khan: How AI could save (not destroy) education | TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_how_ai_could_save_not_destroy_education

Why Sal Khan is rethinking how AI will change schools - Chalkbeat - https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/sal-khan-reflects-on-ai-in-schools-and-khanmigo/

This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard—and it will cost only $10,000 to attend | Fortune - https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/sal-khan-ceo-khan-academy-google-microsoft-ted-ets-higher-education-institute-bachelors-applied-ai-gen-z-college-upskilling/