Sal Khan's Khanmigo Admission Resets Ed-Tech's AI Expectations

Ed-tech's AI expansion did not rest on product merit alone — it rested on Sal Khan's repeated, public, high-profile optimism. When the man who built Khan Academy predicted that AI was about to do for education what the printing press did for literacy, that prediction functioned as a credibility transfer to every vendor selling adjacent products. School boards that were uncertain about AI tutoring could point to Khan. Administrators defending purchases to skeptical teachers could point to Khan. That loan has now been called in. Khan told Chalkbeat that for…