Many lenses, one focus:
Humanity's future after AI
Professor
Carnegie Mellon since 2010
Touring Speaker
Exploring culture and teaching real classes, to reimagine education
Inventor
Discoveries from education to public health, in CNN, NYT, WSJ
Parent
Three kids aged 11–19
Social Entrepreneur
Implementing win-win solutions to teach thinking, usable now
Math Coach
Coached US Math Olymp team for a decade • 4x world champs
Speaking + Listening Tour
Nov 4: Vancouver
Nov 7: New York
Nov 8: Waterloo
Nov 4: Vancouver
Nov 7: New York
Nov 8: Waterloo
Nov 8: Toronto
Nov 10: Oxford
Nov 12: Cleveland
The Brilliant Math Coach Teaching America’s Kids to Outsmart AI
This professor is traveling the country with simple advice for an uncertain future: Be more human.
The country’s most charismatic math teacher was standing in a middle school on a Friday night with a message for students and their anxious parents about the only subjects more stressful than algebra and calculus: AI and ChatGPT.
It had been a long day for Po-Shen Loh, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Team USA’s coach for the International Mathematical Olympiad, who is traveling to 65 cities and giving 124 lectures before the next school year like he’s on a personal mission to meet every single American math geek.
He started that morning at a Brooklyn middle school with a large percentage of low-income students before driving to a top-ranked high school on Long Island that afternoon and coming back to Queens in the evening. But the scholar had the energy of a fourth-grader on Skittles as he delivered a talk called “How to Survive the ChatGPT Invasion.” And his simple, practical advice applied to everyone in the auditorium.
“Think about what makes humans human,” Loh said, “and lean into that as hard as possible.”
How do we thrive alongside AI?
Society is blazing into the unknown. No time for trial and error. Experience gives best practices for a past which is quickly obsolete.
Designing a playbook for the future requires conducting “thought experiments,” exploring endlessly branching What-If's. Inventing pithy principles which incite large-scale behavior. Closing loopholes. It's poetry that meets messy reality, with the discipline of mathematical proof.
Ancient Greek philosophers were mathematicians. So were Game Theorists who designed geopolitical strategy at the dawn of the Atomic Age.
Who?
Prof. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor. He combines math, science, and technology with firsthand exploration of the human condition. Across the global landscape of work, AI, and education. Major newspapers have covered his diverse innovations. His latest unites math stars and actors to transform education.
He won silver for Team USA at the 1999 International Math Olympiad, and served a decade as National Coach. He is a Hertz Fellow — in a community of broadly innovative scientists with roots in the Manhattan Project and Space Race.
He personally speaks in an unprecedented 100+ cities per year on education-after-AI. Conferences. Substitute-teaching in K–12 classrooms. Visiting companies and labs. Public lectures. Learning while sharing ideas with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers. All while teaching at one of the world's foremost universities in AI (Carnegie Mellon) and running his own EdTech social enterprise.
Thought
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The unique feature of human intelligence: love for humanity
After tens of thousands of conversations from Silicon Valley to rural America to Kuala Lumpur, with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers, Prof. Loh concluded that for humanity to thrive after AI, we must link communities of people who are Thought Full. Who both love to think, and love humanity.
Just chasing efficiency is sterile. Thoughtfulness gives human purpose. But delighting others in a fast-changing world requires new skills. Dynamic thinking. Creativity. And understanding real people.
Let's collaborate!
Prof. Loh is dedicated to practically building a more Thought Full world, now. Not just ideas. The key enabler: Thought Full people mutually support, creating great strength. Want to join?
Way 1. Strategic guidance for your community
Prof. Loh shares fresh advice. Grounded in firsthand experience inventing and implementing at the intersection of AI, education, creativity, science, and emotion, and touring worldwide.
He has testified to the Texas State Board of Education. He speaks to public school districts, colleges, independent schools, and government. He gives future-looking keynotes, at conferences from the Chief HR Officers Summit to ASU+GSV.
Way 2. Directly join the LIVE ecosystem now
No need to wait for existing systems to change. Prof. Loh invented a parallel universe that already implements this movement now, everywhere. Using the Internet to connect people. In a win-win, self-sustaining way that can grow to any scale. Covered by CNN.
Its engine is a new way to teach the art and joy of Thought. In a high-energy, emotionally rich, social environment of kindness. Using non-textbook math as a language and sandbox. Favoring creativity and curiosity over accuracy, speed, or memory.
How? Pairs of kind and clever teenagers (selected through intensive interviews) lead live-streamed group brainstorming sessions for tweens that turn math into Twitch and TikTok. Unlimited scaling power comes from a new incentive exchange, completely different from community service: while teaching, teenagers get real-time charisma coaching from professional actors. Transforming their own influence and power. Each co-teaching pair also builds a trusted relationship for future collaboration. Linking a worldwide Thought Full network.
The classes are so extraordinary that they're even commercially successful. Profits are recycled to deliver free classes. Donated to areas which didn't have access to advanced classes, such as rural America and inner cities.
Way 3. Support the movement
To amplify humanitarian work beyond himself, Prof. Loh founded his social enterprise Expii. Educating the underserved. Fighting pandemics. Popularizing thinking and math. For 10 years.
Quick contribution (not tax-deductible)
Support the mission with a one-time or monthly contribution:
Larger gifts
Prof. Loh's social enterprise has a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor (Idea Foundry) which receives tax-deductible gifts. To arrange details, email donate@poshenloh.com.
Thank
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Innovation history
NOVID
First incentive-aligned pandemic tracing app that lets you avoid infection.
Rural America’s math talent
Bringing advanced learning opportunities to students who maxed out local education. Highly scalable.
International Math Olympiad
Created first massive multi-country Olympiad training camp. Founded IMO Alumni Reunion. USA placed 1st 4 times.
LIVE
Professional actors coach math geniuses to inspire kids, Twitch-style.
