Empowering Youth to Thrive in the Age of AI: Shaping Future Leaders

Empowering Our Next Generation to Thrive in the Age of AI: Shaping curious, thoughtful, and empathetic future leaders

As AI advances at shocking speed, what is the future of humanity? How should people develop skills that will still be useful in a world filled with automation? The speaker, Carnegie Mellon math professor Po-Shen Loh, traveled to 100 cities last year, speaking with (and learning from) thousands of audiences on this topic, on a tour which was even covered by the Wall Street Journal. His perspective combines insight from having served as the national coach of the USA Math Olympiad team for a decade, together with his firsthand experience inventing new solutions for large-scale real-world problems from pandemic control to problem-solving education. In this talk, he will share his latest recommendations on how to lean into what makes us human, how to navigate the future landscape of education (including college), and how to learn how to solve unfamiliar problems. Many of his recommendations are quite different from how students and parents currently approach life. To substantiate this advice, he will also share his own story of how he used these principles to invent some of the real-world solutions mentioned above.

Speaker Bio

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and mathematician, with a track record of inventing incentive-aligned solutions to timely population-scale real-world problems, from pandemic control to helping human society thrive in the AI era. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and served a decade-long term as the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team from 2013–2023, which ranked #1 in the world 4 times during that period. Since 2023, he has been the Vice President of the IMO Foundation, as the founder and organizer of the annual IMO Alumni Reunion. His latest research innovation brings together math stars and professional actors, to mass-produce live-streamed creative problem-solving lessons that match the engagement level of online video entertainment. His awards range from an IMO silver medal to the USA Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. His research and educational outreach takes him to cities across the world, reaching over 10,000 people each year through public lectures and events, and he has featured in or co-created videos totaling over 20 million YouTube views. His academic degrees are from Caltech, Cambridge, and Princeton.

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