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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.
đĄ 5 Things Youâll Learn in This Episode:
- Why Anthropic made education one of Claudeâs first real-world focus areas
- Insights from Anthropicâs Education Report on how students actually use AI
- How Claudeâs âlearning modeâ fosters Socratic dialogue and reduces âbrain rotâ
- The tension between LLMs as answer machines vs. pedagogically sound tutors
- What the future of AI tutoring, peer learning, and collaborative tools could look like
⨠Episode Highlights:
[00:01:13] Drew Bentâs 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 Anthropicâs Education Report: how students really use AI
[00:06:59] Claude and Bloomâs Taxonomyâstrengths, gaps, and risks of cognitive offloading
[00:09:22] Building learning modes: shifting from answer machines to Socratic dialogue
[00:12:53] How Drewâs tutoring background informs AI product design
[00:17:26] The role of AI in fosteringânot replacingâhuman-to-human learning
[00:21:00] Studentsâ call for âlearning modeâ to avoid brain rot
[00:26:41] Sneak peek: Anthropicâs upcoming learning mode for Claude Code
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