Shanghai, China - Aired on July 15, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Interview in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor, Wired magazine (partially overlaid with shot 3):
"One of the hopes for education in China or the U.S. or anywhere else in the world is that you have education that's tailored to individual students and that runs at their pace, rather than having a classroom where it only goes at the pace of the dumbest student, and you want that to happen in a personalized way, and you can't do that as a teacher with 30 students, without having an AI tutor help you. And so the AI has the potential to act as a tutor to help children move at their own pace in response to their own curiosity. So bringing AI into the classroom is one way that we can get a much more personalized educational program while still covering the things that need to be done in common, like learning how to read and write."

++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
FILE: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, east China - May 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of students learning on digital platforms in class
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of U.S. students interacting with robots

Shanghai, China - Aired on July 15, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor, Wired magazine (partially overlaid with shot 6):
"Education increasingly is not going to be about giving answers. Because that's what the AIs do. They're really good at giving answers. All the students are using it. So we're not going to train them to give answers. We want to train students to ask questions, to make a good question. Questions are much more valuable than answers. Most innovation and science is a 'what if', 'what if this' -- that's a great question. That's how you move a business. And [asking] 'what if this?' It's questions."

++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
FILE: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, east China - May 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of students interacting with AI agents
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of students on robot company tour

Shanghai, China - Aired on July 15, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor, Wired magazine (partially overlaid with shot 9):
"You need to try them under often or more than once, because right now, they're not very good, these new technologies, AI, the virtual mirror world glasses, they're not going to be very good and if you try them now, you probably won't like them, they probably won't work for you, they probably not be worth the money, but you kind of have to keep trying them. This is again, this idea of failing forward. Okay, because if you try and ignore them or prohibit them or ban them or outlaw them or dismiss them, you don't get to steer. The only way we're going to figure out how to get these things do the best with the least harm is to use them. So if you hear about something, try to give it a chance more than once."

++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
FILE: Beijing, China - 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of students learning to use AI tools under guidance of teacher
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Interview in progress

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) can help transform the education sector by creating more tailored learning to suit the needs of individual students, according to a top U.S. tech journalist.

Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of the leading international tech magazine Wired, gave his assessment on the impact of AI in an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Shanghai, which is set to play host to the upcoming 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance.

Kelly, who is also a prominent futurist and writer, shared his view on the role AI could play in classrooms, and believes the technology could act as a kind of personalized tutor to help teachers tailor instruction to meet the specific needs of each student.

"One of the hopes for education in China or the U.S. or anywhere else in the world is that you have education that's tailored to individual students and that runs at their pace, rather than having a classroom where it only goes at the pace of the dumbest student, and you want that to happen in a personalized way, and you can't do that as a teacher with 30 students, without having an AI tutor help you. And so the AI has the potential to act as a tutor to help children move at their own pace in response to their own curiosity. So bringing AI into the classroom is one way that we can get a much more personalized educational program while still covering the things that need to be done in common, like learning how to read and write," he said.

Kelly further noted that in the age of AI, education should focus less on giving answers and instead place more emphasis on teaching students how to ask the right questions and nurture their natural curiosity.

"Education increasingly is not going to be about giving answers. Because that's what the AIs do. They're really good at giving answers. All the students are using it. So we're not going to train them to give answers. We want to train students to ask questions, to make a good question. Questions are much more valuable than answers. Most innovation and science is a 'what if', 'what if this' -- that's a great question. That's how you move a business," he said.

Addressing some concerns surrounding the use of AI, Kelly acknowledged that new technologies are often imperfect at first, but warned that ignoring or banning them could mean losing the chance to properly shape their future or refine them to make them fit for purpose.

"You need to try them under often or more than once, because right now, they're not very good, these new technologies, AI, the virtual mirror world glasses, they're not going to be very good and if you try them now, you probably won't like them, they probably won't work for you, they probably not be worth the money, but you kind of have to keep trying them. This is again, this idea of failing forward. Okay, because if you try and ignore them or prohibit them or ban them or outlaw them or dismiss them, you don't get to steer. The only way we're going to figure out how to get these things do the best with the least harm is to use them. So if you hear about something, try to give it a chance more than once," said Kelly.