潘鹏凯博士身上有着太多闪光的标签：MIT AI博士、早期“协同过滤”算法的奠基者（该算法是当今所有视频推荐系统的鼻祖）、7家公司的创始人，以及一对被哈佛、MIT、普林斯顿录取的孩子的父亲。

今天，他不是以企业家的身份，而是以一个教育思考者和父亲的身份，与SHBS的老师们探讨：在这个AI即将无所不能的时代，我们的孩子该怎么办？

讲座一开始，潘博士就纠正了大家对AI的普遍误解。“AI不是豆包，不是简单的ChatGPT，也不是聊天机器人。”他展示了一段由AI生成的极其逼真的视频，“你们看这个视频，地上的反射、衣服的纹理、人物的动作……我们人类做梦都梦不出这么精细的画面。当我看到这个视频时，我觉得AGI（通用人工智能）已经来了。”

他指出，AI的核心能力是预测。人类的大脑只有20瓦的功率，且会随着年龄衰老；而AI的算力几乎是无限的，它可以在海量信息中学习规律、掌握规律，并做出超乎想象的预测与创造。

面对台下专注聆听的老师们，潘博士抛出了AI带来的巨大变革与隐忧：

机遇（喜）： 未来可能是能源自由的时代，核聚变技术可能在AI帮助下突破；人类的寿命可能延长至120岁甚至更长。

挑战（忧）： “你们知道中国居民平均每天工作多长时间吗？3.6小时。但每天花在手机上的时间是5.6小时。”

作为推荐算法的早期研究者，潘博士坦诚地指出了危害：

上瘾与社交替代： 美国已有18%的青少年表示他们的第一个“男女朋友”是AI。

亲子关系疏离： 孩子不再听父母的，因为他们觉得AI更“懂”自己。

思考能力外包： “你的大脑就像你的肌肉，不用就会萎缩。”如果一切都问AI，孩子们将失去创造性思维。

面对这些挑战，潘博士分享了他在AI时代的实践——利用AI帮助孩子进行大学申请和个人成长。“我们的痛点在于：要么什么都不知道，要么信息太多不知真假。”潘博士介绍了他的AI智能体，通过研究超过100万个申请案例，为学生提供个性化的路径规划。

他现场展示了如何用AI为学生生成“未来的我”的视频：如果孩子想学音乐科技，AI会生成一个未来音乐制作人一天的生活。如果孩子想学机器人，AI会生成一个在实验室调试机械臂的工程师。“十五六岁的孩子不知道自己要什么，你跟他讲道理没用。但AI像一个造梦机器，让他‘看见’未来的自己，内驱力自然就来了。”

讲座中，潘博士特别提到了一个让全场振奋的案例——来自宏润博源11年级的Sammy同学。

在潘博士组织的一个AI+设计暑期工作坊中，Sammy发现高中生最大的痛点其实是时间管理。于是，在MIT教授（“ThinkPad小红点”发明者）的指导下，Sammy仅用了两周时间，就利用AI工具搭建了一个属于自己的时间管理智能体。

“他不仅写完了代码，还写了论文，做了演示。”潘博士难掩惊喜，“Sammy的同班同学里，10个人有7、8个都在两周内做出了自己的AI应用。有的孩子做了帮助盲人上课的应用，有的做了检测土壤质量的传感器。”

这就是AI时代的“学习”：发现问题、利用杠杆（AI）、快速解决。 这些16岁的孩子，正在用AI做出潘博士读博时都无法企及的成果。

给SHBS的寄语：做AI时代的“飞行员”，而不是“乘客”。讲座的最后，潘博士对宏润博源的老师们提出了恳切的建议：

画好红线： “AI帮你创造的，全力支持；AI帮你消费的（如无脑刷短视频、AI代写作业），坚决反对。要像教孩子用火用刀一样，教孩子如何正确使用AI。”

拥抱“做中学”： 当每个孩子都能用AI做出自己的作品时，这些作品不再是“作业”，而是他们的“Profile”（个人档案）。有内驱力的孩子，是因为他们在做自己想做的事。

引入AI通识课： 建议尽快开展“AI素养”教育，帮助孩子建立识别信息茧房、防止脑力外包的能力。

40年前，未来已被预测；40年后的今天，我们正身处变革的洪流。

宏润博源学校通过此次培训，不仅让老师们看清了AI的底层逻辑，更看到了培养未来人才的路径。正如潘博士所言：“当我们的孩子能从刷手机的‘消费者’，变成用AI创造价值的‘开发者’，教育就真正实现了弯道超车。”

培训结束后，老师们意犹未尽，围着潘博士探讨如何将AI智能体融入日常教学管理。关于Sammy同学的那段视频，也成了现场老师们争相观看的焦点。宏润博源学子的创造力，正在被这个时代看见。

新的学期，SHBS已准备好，与AI共舞，为未来而教。

责编：Angela

校对：Freya  

审核：Sophia

Dr. Pan Pengkai has many shining labels: a Ph.D. in AI from MIT, the founder of the early "collaborative filtering" algorithm (which is the ancestor of all current video recommendation systems), the founder of seven companies, and the father of a pair of children admitted to Harvard, MIT, and Princeton.

Today, he is not here as an entrepreneur, but as an educational thinker and a father, discussing with the teachers of SHBS: In this era when AI is about to be omnipotent, what should we do for our children?

At the beginning of the lecture, Dr. Pan corrected the common misunderstanding about AI. "AI is not a steamed bun, not a simple ChatGPT, and not a chatbot," he said, showing a video generated by AI that was extremely realistic. "Look at this video. The reflections on the ground, the texture of the clothes, the movements of the characters... We humans couldn't even dream up such a detailed picture. When I saw this video, I felt that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) has arrived." 

He pointed out that the core ability of AI is prediction. The human brain has only 20 watts of power and ages with time; while the computing power of AI is almost unlimited. It can learn and master patterns from massive amounts of information and make predictions and creations beyond imagination.

Facing the teachers listening intently below, Dr. Pan raised the huge changes and hidden concerns brought by AI:

Opportunities (Joy): The future might be an era of energy freedom, with nuclear fusion technology potentially breaking through with the assistance of AI; human lifespan could be extended to 120 years or even longer.

Challenges (Worries): "Do you know how long the average Chinese resident works each day? 3.6 hours. But the time spent on mobile phones is 5.6 hours." Dr. Pan, an early researcher of recommendation algorithms, candidly pointed out the harms:

Addiction and social substitution: 18% of American teenagers have already stated that their first "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" was an AI.

Alienation of parent-child relationships: Children no longer listen to their parents because they feel that AI "understands" them better.

Outsourcing of thinking ability: "Your brain is like your muscle; if you don't use it, it will atrophy." If everything is asked of AI, children will lose their creative thinking. 

In the face of these challenges, Dr. Pan shared his practice in the AI era - using AI to assist children in college applications and personal growth."Our pain point is that either we know nothing or there is too much information and we don't know what's true," Dr. Pan introduced his AI agent, which provides personalized path planning for students by studying over one million application cases.

He demonstrated on the spot how to use AI to generate a "Future Me" video for students: If a child wants to learn about music technology, AI will generate a day in the life of a future music producer. If a child wants to learn about robots, AI will generate the life of an engineer debugging a mechanical arm in a laboratory. "A fifteen or sixteen-year-old child doesn't know what they want. Reasoning with them is of no use. But AI is like a dream-making machine, allowing them to 'see' their future selves, and their intrinsic motivation will naturally arise."

During the lecture, Dr. Pan particularly mentioned a case that thrilled the entire audience - Sammy, a student from the 11th grade of Hongrun Boyuan.

In an AI + Design summer workshop organized by Dr. Pan, Sammy discovered that the biggest pain point for high school students is actually time management. Under the guidance of a professor from MIT (the inventor of the "ThinkPad red dot"), Sammy built his own time management AI assistant in just two weeks using AI tools. 

Not only did he finish the code, but he also wrote a paper and made a presentation. Dr. Pan couldn't hide his surprise. "Among Sammy's classmates, seven or eight out of ten have developed their own AI applications within two weeks. Some kids made applications to help blind students attend classes, and some made sensors to detect soil quality."

This is "learning" in the AI era: identifying problems, leveraging AI, and solving them quickly. These 16-year-olds are achieving results with AI that Dr. Pan couldn't even reach during his doctoral studies. 

Message to SHBS: Be the "pilot" in the AI era, not the "passenger"

At the end of the lecture, Dr. Pan gave sincere advice to the teachers of Hongrun Boyuan: 

Draw the red line: "Support fully what AI helps create; firmly oppose what AI helps consume (such as aimlessly watching short videos or having AI do homework for you). Teach children how to use AI correctly just as you teach them how to use fire and knives."

Embrace "learning by doing": When every child can use AI to create their own works, these works are no longer "homework" but their "Profile" (personal portfolio). Children with intrinsic motivation are those who are doing what they want to do.

Introduce AI general education: It is suggested that "AI literacy" education be launched as soon as possible to help children develop the ability to identify information cocoons and prevent mental outsourcing.

Forty years ago, the future was predicted; today, forty years later, we are in the midst of a torrent of change. Through this training, Hongrun Boyuan School not only enabled teachers to understand the underlying logic of AI, but also to see the path for cultivating future talents. As Dr. Pan said, "When our children can transform from 'consumers' who are constantly on their phones to 'developers' who use AI to create value, education will truly achieve a leap forward." 

After the training, the teachers were still in high spirits and surrounded Dr. Pan to discuss how to integrate AI agents into daily teaching management. The video about Sammy became the focus of the teachers' attention, and they all vied to watch it. The creativity of the students at Hongrun Boyuan is being recognized by this era. 

In the new semester, SHBS is ready to dance with AI and teach for the future.

Editor：Angela

Proofreader：Freya

Review：Sophia