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Keynote: Uniting Game Theory, Math Stars, and Actors to Build Human Intelligence in the AI Age –Po-Shen Loh

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Lawrence D. McHugh Hall

One of the central challenges of beyond-standard-curriculum instruction (such as gifted education) is how to achieve equitably-distributed scale. Making matters worse, generative AI (such as ChatGPT) is increasingly adept at solving standard curricular tasks, so it is urgent to scalably deliver teaching that goes beyond current standards. Fortunately, there is an area close to math which devises solutions in which problems solve themselves even through self-serving human behavior: Game Theory. The speaker will describe his recent work using Game Theory to create a novel alignment of incentives to concurrently solve pain points in disparate sectors. At the heart of the innovation is a new, mutually-beneficial cooperation between high school math stars and professionally-trained actors and comedians. This creates a highly scalable community of extraordinary coaches with sufficient capacity to teach large numbers of middle schoolers seeking academic enrichment (https://live.poshenloh.com). At the same time, it creates a new pathway for high school math stars to significantly strengthen their emotional intelligence. The whole program is conducted virtually, so it reaches through geographic barriers. The speaker will also share his experience extending this work to build talent development pipelines in underprivileged communities, identifying and supporting highly motivated middle school students who otherwise did not have access to coaching.