Hi r/learnmath. Nice to meet you! My name is Chris Piech and I'm a professor at Stanford University who grew up in Kenya/Malaysia and California. My professional goal is to make high quality education free for everyone. After a lot of pondering I decided to try something kinda fun this coming term and I am looking for folks to join. No pressure, but I thought a lot of people in this community would enjoy the opportunity.

Some of the best times I have ever had as a professor was to teach... and I get the feeling that (as a society) we drastically underestimate the number of folks who would like to teach math for about 10 hours a year. Of course I also think that a lot of those folks would be great at teaching. Thats not just a vibe. It is based off a lot of real research I have done on the subject.

So I built a class called Probability for AI. It starts Oct 9th and applications are due end of Sept. Its (hopefully) cool for a few reasons:

• The plan is to have one volunteer teacher for every 10 students! Apps have been open for a week and over 1,000 folks have applied to teach. So presumably we have space for tens of thousands of students. Hopefully more!
• I have built a lot of fun tools to make the assignments neat and easy for folks with just light math background. For example in your application, after about 1 hour of learning you will build an AI text detection app alongside a free coding agent -- who care about your learning.
• If you are a teacher, we will give you the best training we can come up with. Practice on teachable agents and we will share what we have learned over decades of teaching at Stanford. Of course you get the best thing for improving: experience teaching a small group.
• This is all for good times. I don't get paid extra by Stanford for hosting this course, and I am keeping it free for everyone. I got some funding from a kind alumni and that is going to pay for all the free tools and servers. Good times.

So, if you want to learn the probability behind AI, come join! And if you want to teach... you rock.

My guess is that a lot of folks on this thread are actually pretty decent at math. If you think thats you, it would be so awesome if you wanted to come teach. Each volunteer means 10+ students get to take the class. And if you feel like telling your loved ones / communities that would be great to.

Apply to learn: https://pai.stanford.edu/apply/pai1/student

Apply to teach: https://pai.stanford.edu/apply/pai1/sl

Anything that I learn from this course I will be happy to share with this community. Also ask me anything. I'll check this thread for the next few weeks. Rock on. And mods, thanks for doing what you do.