He Bet on the AI Age Eleven Years Early | Derek Haoyang Li

Millions of learner profiles, and a technique that traces a grade nine failure back to grade six. Book Ian for your event → iankhan.com | booking@iankhan.com SUMMARY Derek Haoyang Li founded Squirrel AI after concluding the AI age was coming, eleven years before it arrived. He explains how detecting millions of distinct learner profiles enables genuinely different teaching, and describes tracing: finding the grade six gap that makes a grade nine concept impossible. KEY FINDINGS • Founding the company eleven years before the AI age arrived • Detecting millions of distinct user profiles • Delivering genuinely different instruction per student • Around 100 new teaching strategies developed • Tracing: locating the earlier knowledge gap behind a current failure • A grade nine concept blocked by a missing grade six component • Why repetition by a teacher cannot fix that GUEST Derek Haoyang Li, Founder & Chief Education Technology Scientist FULL TRANSCRIPT iankhan.com/futurist/derek-haoyang-li-ai-education-tracing Recorded at the Future Investment Initiative, Riyadh, for The Futurist. ──────────────────── ABOUT IAN KHAN — AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER Most AI keynotes end with a better understanding. Mine end with a measured readiness score and a ninety-day plan. Your leadership team is assessed before the event, the room sees its own collective result live, and every attendee leaves with a ninety-day plan they helped build. Every year I interview more than 500 senior leaders on camera: scient