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Michelle Culver: Why school has to be designed around relationships
What if the most important thing school can teach kids in the AI era isn't how to use the technology — but how to stay in relationship with each other? That's the question Michelle Culver, founder of The Rithm Project and a former senior leader at Teach for America, has spent the last two years trying to answer.
We dig into what happens when the loneliness epidemic collides with generative AI, why AI companions are already a $28 billion industry growing 20x faster than ed tech, and why redesigning school around human connection may be the most urgent education challenge of the next decade. Michelle also gets personal — sharing what it felt like to sit her husband down and tell him she wanted to have "an affair" with an AI bot, and what that experiment taught her about how quickly these tools can start to feel real.
Content warning: This episode includes discussion of sensitive topics, including self-harm.
The Rithm Project
- https://Rithmproject.org
- linkedin.com/in/michelleculver/
aiEDU: The AI Education Project
- aiEDU.org
- linkedin.com/company/aiedu/
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By aiEDU: The AI Education ProjectWhat if the most important thing school can teach kids in the AI era isn't how to use the technology — but how to stay in relationship with each other? That's the question Michelle Culver, founder of The Rithm Project and a former senior leader at Teach for America, has spent the last two years trying to answer.
We dig into what happens when the loneliness epidemic collides with generative AI, why AI companions are already a $28 billion industry growing 20x faster than ed tech, and why redesigning school around human connection may be the most urgent education challenge of the next decade. Michelle also gets personal — sharing what it felt like to sit her husband down and tell him she wanted to have "an affair" with an AI bot, and what that experiment taught her about how quickly these tools can start to feel real.
Content warning: This episode includes discussion of sensitive topics, including self-harm.
The Rithm Project
- https://Rithmproject.org
- linkedin.com/in/michelleculver/
aiEDU: The AI Education Project
- aiEDU.org
- linkedin.com/company/aiedu/