Behind the Craft

AI Makes Cheating Easy. Here’s How It Can Make Kids Smarter Instead | Sue Khim

September 6, 2026·45 min
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📌 Copy the AI system I use to run a one-person $1M+ business: https://www.behindthecraft.com🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ professionals: https://creatoreconomy.soSue is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant, an interactive learning platform with 10M+ learners. I asked her how AI can help kids learn without doing their thinking for them, and she played back a real session with Koji, Brilliant’s AI tutor. If you’re building AI products or raising kids, watch how it helps a student work through a mistake without handing over the answer.We talked about:(00:00) Why AI should make kids think harder(01:34) Why test scores are down while grades are up(09:41) Koji: An AI tutor that won’t give you the answer(18:05) Why humans design lessons and AI builds them(22:25) Primitives: The building blocks behind Brilliant’s AI(29:30) Testing AI lessons with simulated students(32:10) Measuring learning, not lesson completion(34:39) Sue’s rule for competing with the big AI labs(39:10) How to raise kids who enjoy doing hard thingsThanks to our sponsors:Riverside: All-in-one AI studio for podcasts and video https://creators.riverside.com/PeterYangLinear: The AI agent platform for modern teams https://linear.app/behind-the-craftWispr Flow: 4x faster than typing with your voice https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryangWhere to find Sue:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-khim-70b86014/Brilliant: https://brilliant.orgSubscribe to this channel - more interviews coming soon!

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