From Declining Middle Class to Economic Patriotism: Solutions for America’s Future Ro Khanna Part 2

I'm Tom Bilyeu and this is Impact Theory. Welcome back to part two of my incredible conversation with Congressman Ro Khanna. Without further ado, I bring you Ro Khanna. I'm very eager to see people not accumulate debt. So the four year college degree thing to me is just a question of, well, can you do it without accumulating debt? If you can, great. If you can't, probably a terrible idea. But let me put forward a radical idea that I've never said out loud. I wanna see what you think about this. If you wanna fix education, acknowledge that you live in the age of AI and hire basically hall monitors, effectively babysitters, to sit at the front of the class, a very limited number of them, but let's say one for every 10 ish students, and then they just interface with AI all day and you you give each school a budget to buy their AI system and then you just let the AI systems compete for who outputs the best students. And that alone would be so much cheaper and so much better than what we do now that we should do it would it is immoral to not do that. I'll go that far. Here here here's why I disagree with that. Not not not no. I'm not saying that we shouldn't use AI as tools to supplement teaching. But when I think of the teachers, and I'm curious when you think of your teachers who had the biggest impact on you, I don't remember the details of what, books I read in, ninth grade English, and I probably don't remember the details of the history I learned in tenth grade social studies. But I remember missus Raab, believing in me, encouraging me to write, challenging me to write. I remember mister Longo pushing me, to care about public service, to love public service, to develop my ideas. And I think that so much yes. They're the hard skills. I'm not gonna, to to to to to say that they don't matter. But to get someone to be good at those hard skills, you've gotta give them purpose. You've gotta give them a sense of why it matters. You gotta get them to love things. And I think that is not AI. That's emotional. It's I had this conversation with Jensen Wong at NVIDIA, and I said, do you think AI is gonna, really displace jobs? And he said, yes. It's gonna displace jobs. But, you know, I spend most of my time as CEO of NVIDIA setting goals and, talking about resilience and, inspiring people. And I I just think that that human quality, is ultimately the most important in success. I imagine it was the most important for you. So I love that. And that's why I'm saying you want more people in the classroom, not less. But you just wanna make sure that we accept that the question has been asked and answered. …