✨ Special Episode ✨

Judit Polgar is the greatest female chess player in history. She beat Gary Kasparov in his prime, and As a junior, she outranked Demis Hassabis, the man who now runs Google DeepMind. She's the star of the new Netflix documentary Queen of Chess. She watched AI tear through her profession thirty years ago and her warning to educators is one we cannot afford to ignore.

● She lived AI's revolution 30 years before us

● The computer told her to win, she lost

● AI gives passive knowledge, experiences knowledge is needed

● Schools are destroying kids who are different

● Intuition comes from experience AI can't replace

00:34 Meet Judit Polgár: Queen of Chess

01:03 From Champion to Educator: Why Classrooms?

02:21 The Chess Palace Programme & Learning Through Play

04:04 Chess: The Original Testing Ground for AI

04:57 What Teachers Are Feeling Right Now

06:16 The Day She Trusted the Computer and Lost the Game

07:26 An Earthquake in the Classroom

08:43 Re-evaluating What Teachers Bring to the Room

09:43 Her Father's Bold Claim: Can Any Child Be Exceptional?

12:25 Adversity, Setbacks & Teaching Failure

14:36 A Week-Long Journey Into Mistakes

16:13 The Sycophantic AI Problem: Why Kids Need Rejection

17:06 Critical Thinking When Real and Fake Blur

19:17 What Schools Still Haven't Learned

20:46 Human Connection Over Frontal Learning

23:13 The Problem with 50-Minute Subject Blocks

24:52 Over-Reliance on AI & The Danger to Intuition

27:23 Why Chatbot Answers Are "Worse Than Nothing"

28:36 The 10/90 Rule: Knowing the Move vs. Understanding Why

30:49 Navigating the Messy Middle as a Leader

32:35 Bravery, Mistakes & Cutting Through the Jungle