A Student's Experience at an AI-Powered High School

Alex Matthew (@alxmthew) is 17 years old and goes to an AI-powered high school. He does his learning in 3 hours a day through an AI platform that personalizes his lessons. He has no teachers. Instead, the adults in the classroom are called “guides.” Their job isn’t to deliver information through lectures—it’s to help point kids in the right direction. Alex spends hours a day at school building a real-world project of his own creation. In his case, it’s @berryaiplushies, an AI stuffed animal designed to help teenagers become more self-aware. I’m fascinated by how AI might change education: how we learn, and what we learn. That’s why I was psyched that Alex’s parents okay’d him to come on @every’s AI & I. Alex is the youngest guest we’ve ever had, and we covered a lot of ground: - What a day inside Alpha High School looks like - Why he doesn't use AI to cheat—even though he easily could - Whether ambitious teenagers still care about college - How Gen Z really feels about social media, books, and reading - His rankings of the foundation models from @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @Google, and @xAI This is a must-watch for anyone curious about what growing up with AI looks like from the inside. The kids are going to be alright. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:30 A typical day inside Alpha High School: 0:04:08 Why Alpha replaced teachers with “guides” focused on motivating students: 00:06:54 Why Alex doesn’t use AI to cheat, even though he could: 00:12:09 Do ambitious teenagers care about going to college?: 00:19:51 Alex’s take on how Gen Z thinks about AI: 00:25:12 How Alex thinks about the effects of social media: 00:27:52 Gen Z’s relationship with books and reading: 00:31:29 Alex ranks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok: 00:38:57 Why Alex is building Berry, an AI stuffed animal for teen mental health: 00:47:12