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Drew Bent leads Education as part of Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments. He also co-founded the tutoring non-profit Schoolhouse.world with Sal Khan. Prior to that, he wrote code at Khan Academy, taught high school math, and has been tutoring students for over a decade. Drew has degrees in physics & CS from MIT, and an education master's from Stanford.

💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode:

1. Why Anthropic made education one of Claude’s first real-world focus areas
2. Insights from Anthropic’s Education Report on how students actually use AI
3. How Claude’s “learning mode” fosters Socratic dialogue and reduces “brain rot”
4. The tension between LLMs as answer machines vs. pedagogically sound tutors
5. What the future of AI tutoring, peer learning, and collaborative tools could look like

✨ Episode Highlights:

[00:01:13] Drew Bent’s journey from teaching and tutoring to leading education at Anthropic
[00:02:50] Why education emerged as a top use case for Claude
[00:04:20] Findings from Anthropic’s Education Report: how students really use AI
[00:06:59] Claude and Bloom’s Taxonomy—strengths, gaps, and risks of cognitive offloading
[00:09:22] Building learning modes: shifting from answer machines to Socratic dialogue
[00:12:53] How Drew’s tutoring background informs AI product design
[00:17:26] The role of AI in fostering—not replacing—human-to-human learning
[00:21:00] Students’ call for “learning mode” to avoid brain rot
[00:26:41] Sneak peek: Anthropic’s upcoming learning mode for Claude Code

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