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Sal Khan on Job Shock: How AI Will Reshape Work and Learning
In this podcast interview, Khan Academy founder Sal Khan discusses his forthcoming book 'Job Shock' and his growing concern that AI-driven automation will dislocate entire categories of workers—call center staff, drivers, and even software engineers, designers, and product managers—over the next three to five years. He argues that safe jobs are those that lean into human connection (teaching, nursing, hospitality, sales), describes how Khan Academy is transforming internally with AI agents (running a ~$1.2M/year Anthropic bill), and unveils the Constellation Institute, a new accredited program offering a full degree for under $10,000 that emphasizes 'durable skills' like communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, co-designed with employers such as McKinsey, Bain, Google, Microsoft, Replit, and Accenture.
Vishal Punwani
Vishal Punwani is the CEO and co-founder of SoWork, a generative-AI virtual workplace platform born at Harvard's Innovation Labs. A medical doctor turned founder, he traded clinical medicine and a stint at the World Health Organization for the question of how distributed teams keep a culture alive when nobody shares a hallway. He and his two co-founders, who first met playing World of Warcraft as teenagers, set out to borrow what video games solved decades ago - presence, spontaneity, belonging - and bring it to remote work. In October 2021 the company raised a $15M seed round led by Talis Capital, counting Tinder among its early customers.
Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton Todd is a senior frontend infrastructure engineer at Khan Academy and one of the most recognized voices in web accessibility. A former Deque Systems engineer who helped shape axe-core, she pivoted from photojournalism to web development, built the Testing Accessibility workshop series, and has spent over a decade making the web usable for everyone - framing it as a civil rights issue, not a compliance checkbox.