Sol Khan: An AI-tutor for Every Student on Earth

If Tony Stark and your favorite high school math teacher had a baby—it’d probably get suspended for hacking the school’s Wi-Fi. But if it also had a heart for global education equity, it might grow up to be Sol Khan.

Founder of Khan Academy (yes, the YouTube voice that got you through calculus and existential despair), Sol isn’t just some guy with a whiteboard and good lighting. He’s on a mission to make world-class education a basic human right, not a luxury upgrade.

Enter: Khanmigo, Sol’s latest plot twist. It’s not a Marvel villain or your cousin’s gamer tag—it’s an AI-powered tutor that doesn’t roll its eyes when you ask what a “rational number” is for the sixth time. Think ChatGPT meets your favorite teacher, minus the coffee breath and pop quizzes.

Sol’s dream? Every child on Earth, from Silicon Valley to rural Uganda, having a personalized tutor that’s as patient as Mr. Rogers and as sharp as Sherlock Holmes. The crazy part? He’s actually doing it.

Khan Academy already reaches over 150 million users, and with Khanmigo, the goal isn’t just more videos. It’s deeper learning, more human connection, and giving every student—regardless of zip code—a chance to thrive.

We love a good underdog story, but this is a teacher vs. global inequality superhero arc. And Sol? He’s the nerdy Avenger we didn’t know we needed.

That’s why we’re thrilled to nominate Salman “Sol” Khan for The Steward Prize—for daring to ask, “What if every kid on Earth had the best tutor in the world… and it never charged by the hour?”

Now that’s the kind of homework we can get behind.