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A father and AI engineer on parenting in the age of AI
Episode 312th November 2025 • Education Futures • Svenia Busson & Laurent Jolie
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In this episode of Education Futures, host Svenia Busson sits down with Samuel Path, a senior engineer in AI and a father of four, to explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and its impact on parenting. Samuel shares his journey from a curious child hacking video games to becoming a passionate AI enthusiast. They discuss the transformative power of AI in the workplace, the importance of lifelong learning, and how to prepare the next generation for an AI-driven world. Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation on the opportunities and challenges of raising children in the age of AI.

Here are some of the insights Sam shared:

https://eurekalabs.ai/ - Educating people to AI founded by Andrej Karpathy

https://kurzgesagt.org/ - Great videos to spark creativity about science & technology

https://khanacademy.org/ + https://scratch.mit.edu/ are the online tools he uses for his kids

The video where Kurzgesagt discusses this problem of slop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

On Demis Hassabis winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)

https://deepmind.google/blog/demis-hassabis-john-jumper-awarded-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/

HBR article on AI slop that's destroying coworker productivity

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

Sam recommends reading the AI education death spiral by Anand Sanwal: https://anandsanwal.me/ai-education-death-spiral/

Self-driving technology in China is now even more advanced than in San Francisco (as of Nov 12th, 2025)

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-robotaxi-self-driving-waymo-254ce0a1?st=BCZFqE

The article about hope, sand and soil by Riwa Harfoush

https://substack.com/@riwaharfoush/p-177572330

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