Inteligencia por Inteligencia with Eugenio Salas

AI can give a student an answer in seconds. How do we use it to help that student think, question, and build something of their own?

Eugenio Salas Iturriaga joins me from Mexico's AI education community to talk about access to knowledge, responsible AI, and preparing people for a future that keeps changing. His company, Alexandr.ia, takes inspiration from the ancient Library of Alexandria and is developing AI learning systems for schools and businesses.

We agree on a lot. Then we get into a real disagreement: if voice-based AI lets someone communicate, learn, and work effectively, which reading and writing skills remain essential? Eugenio makes the case for protecting those skills. I question whether we're treating every familiar skill as a permanent requirement.

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WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY

• How Eugenio approaches personalized learning, institutional rules, and teacher oversight.

• Why getting an answer and developing understanding are different outcomes.

• The tension between expanding access through voice and preserving reading and writing skills.

• Why we both see a role for ethics, psychology, and the humanities in AI's future.

• What it means to become a creator with AI instead of only a consumer.

We also compare experiences in Mexico and the United States, discuss the challenges around data centers and education policy, and share the AI tools we're using. We finish with WALL-E, Black Mirror, The Matrix, and a little Sangre por Sangre.

TRY THIS

Take something you're trying to learn. Ask AI to question your reasoning before giving you an answer. Then explain the idea back in your own words, aloud or in writing, and see what you actually understand.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Meet Eugenio and our connection to Mexico

03:37 Mexico's AI ecosystem

06:25 AI headlines, risk, and responsibility

12:46 Creators or consumers?

14:43 Alexandr.ia and access to knowledge

20:03 Voice, literacy, and how we learn

23:48 Which skills remain essential?

29:10 AI in Mexican schools

32:12 Classroom adoption, values, and student privacy

35:07 Data centers, power, and community promises

38:57 Preparing students for a changing workforce

42:38 The humanities, ethics, and human work

44:33 Comparing approaches to AI in education

49:17 Young AI leadership and social impact

51:44 Where to find Eugenio

52:51 AI workflows, subscriptions, and daily tools

58:25 WALL-E, Black Mirror, and The Matrix

01:01:15 Sangre por Sangre and closing thoughts

CONNECT WITH EUGENIO

Eugenio Salas Iturriaga is the founder and CEO of Alexandr.ia AI Learning Systems and leads the Mexico City Hub of the Young AI Leaders Community associated with ITU's AI for Good initiative.

Alexandr.ia:

https://www.alexandriamx.com/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniosalasi/

RESOURCES

Eugenio's founder profile:

https://www.alexandriamx.com/founder/eugenio

AI for Good speaker profile:

https://aiforgood.itu.int/speaker/eugenio-salas-iturriaga/

CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT

Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows

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