114. Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker

This time we're chatting with Jonathan Strecker on the kinds of intelligences, why AI shouldn’t replace learning wholesale, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations and lack of trust, AI use in academia, skills atrophy, the anxious generation, dumbing down the masses, rethinking education and more...

Published on: 24th of July 2026
Podcast authors: Ben Byford and Dr Jonathan P. Strecker
Audio duration: 47:45
Website plays & downloads: 5 Click to download
Tags: Education, Wisdom, Hallucinations, Context, Learning, Anxious generation
Playlists: Education

Dr. Jonathan Strecker is an educator, commentator, and public thinker who challenges people to think more deeply, live more deliberately, and question the assumptions that quietly shape their lives. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, meaning, culture, and personal responsibility, bringing intellectual seriousness to conversations that are often reduced to slogans, outrage, or easy answers.

At the heart of Dr. Strecker’s work is the belief that education is not merely the transfer of information, but the formation of wisdom, connection, resilience, judgment, and health.



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Episode host: Ben Byford

Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.

In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society. He is available for articles, talks and workshops.

Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.

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