AI Schools Are Here: How kids learn 2h/day and become top 1% nationally | MacKenzie Price

This interview is concerning. The TikTok-scrolling teen becomes an audience and an AI product. The lemonade stand kid becomes a revenue exercise. The video game kid becomes someone building a business. Students are pitching to VCs. So when Price talks about kids becoming “creators,” I don’t think she really means creators in the broad human sense. She seems to mean potential entrepreneurs. Builders of products. People who can monetize an interest. And apparently that starts at six. The Barbie story is what really got me. This six-year-old makes $1,600 selling paleo cookies and coconut water. She buys the Barbie she wanted. And then she’s basically like: I’m good. What else would I do with the money? That's a good response. But the adults don’t seem to see it that way. They see a missed opportunity. She could keep going. She could do this every weekend. She could scale. No. She got her Barbie. She’s good. That looks like a kid understanding enough because a 6 year old shouldn't be known to be ambitious. And maybe that’s what makes the story so uncomfortable. The child actually has the saner relationship to money here. The adults are the ones trapped in this world where everything has to become a business, every interest has to become productive, and every little success has to be turned into more. That’s not how kids should have to think. Sometimes a kid sells cookies, buys the Barbie, and then goes back to being a kid. That should be allowed to be enough.

Can u make a video on EDUCATION SYSTEM, college degrees in todays world. Is it even important to go to college?

What should kids learn today that schools aren't teaching?

Schools should give teachers AI agents to do all the Science of Learning paperwork and data documentation. Let teachers do the Art of Learning.

You must give children a foundation. Therefore, you could say you could create a basic education, the minimum education children need to learn. This could include reading, writing, basic mathematics, a basic understanding of society, but it should also include, and will include, psychology, so that children learn to work on their psychology.Because there will come a realization that the primary function of the education system is not to fill a child's mind with knowledge, but to help the child resolve their psychology and set them on a constructive path for the rest of their lives.

This was a fascinating conversation. The Alpha model raises important questions about whether traditional time-based schooling is still fit for purpose, especially if AI tutors can help students work at the right level, fill knowledge gaps, and move towards mastery more efficiently. I also like that the model is not simply “kids on screens”; it includes guides, motivation coaching, reading support, life-skills projects, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, claims like “top 1% nationally” and “twice as much in two hours” are very strong and need independent verification, transparent comparison groups, wellbeing data, and evidence that the model works beyond families who can access a high-cost private-school environment. AI clearly has huge potential for personalised practice and feedback, but I would be cautious about framing traditional teachers mainly as content deliverers. Skilled teachers do far more: they diagnose misconceptions, manage cognitive load, build trust, support language development, and make complex human judgements. Alpha seems like an important experiment worth studying seriously, but not uncritically.

literally fallen in love with this podcast !

Маринааааааа! Как классно что ты сделала такое интервью! ❤Боже неужели это уже начали практиковать!!❤ я была тем ребенком который не успевает по программе, и учителя только затюкивали. И это так сильно повлияло на меня в негативном смысле! И сейчас я вижу нечто похожее происходит с моими детьми, только у них есть я для поддержки) но какая классная школа😍

Well, THANKS at first! This guest is so into the education ! And the interview made me think 💭 curious things... It's a pleasure to spend my time watching it! Thanks❤

Excellent! She’s so вдохновляющая женщина! И обаятельная. Спасибо Марина за еще одно обалденное интервью. Хотелось бы в конце саммари или одну мысль 🤠