
Sal Khan, who is responsible for teaching more than 130 million students about writing, reading and math as the founder of free online learning nonprofit Khan Academy, recognized AI's potential to open the cheating floodgates from the moment he got access to OpenAI's GPT-4 technology in 2022.
"That first weekend we had access, we were like 'This could be used to cheat'," Khan said Monday in an onstage interview at Fortune's Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco. By the time Khan Academy released its GPT-powered tutor Khanmigo, in March 2023, Khan had installed multiple safeguards to prevent students from using it as a cheat tool.