Transcript: ‘Inside an AI High School, Through the Eyes of a 17-Year-Old Founder’

The transcript of AI & I with Alpha High School student Alex Mathew is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:01:30
2. A typical day inside Alpha High School: 0:04:08
3. Why Alpha replaced teachers with “guides” focused on motivating students: 00:06:54
4. Why Mathew doesn’t use AI to cheat, even though he could: 00:12:09
5. Do ambitious teenagers care about going to college?: 00:19:51
6. Mathew’s take on how Gen Z thinks about AI: 00:25:12
7. How Mathew thinks about the effects of social media: 00:27:52
8. Gen Z’s relationship with books and reading: 00:31:29
9. Mathew ranks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok: 00:38:57
10. Why Mathew is building Berry, an AI stuffed animal for teen mental health: 00:47:12

Transcript

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Dan Shipper

Alex, welcome to the show.

Alex Mathew