Alpha School<\/a> \u2014 the \u201cAI-powered\u201d school that, as we\u2019ve reported, runs a summer camp featuring omakase classes and \u201clife skills\u201d like building Trojan horses \u2014 has launched a second school where students are guaranteed to graduate with a million-dollar business.<\/p>\nAnd all the Mini Musks have to do is build their business daily \u201cuntil dark.\u201d The original Alpha \u2014 which counts hedgie legend Bill Ackman among its supporters \u2014 figures that its \u201cmastery-based, AI driven approach allows students to crush their academics\u201d in hours, with the rest of the day focused on \u201cteam-based workshops\u201d and fostering qualities such as \u201cgrit.\u201d<\/p>\n
A student works from their laptop. San Antonio Express-News via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Bill Ackman supported the AI-powered school. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Its new spinoff, Founders School, uses the \u201cextra\u201d time freed up by the AI-optimized curriculum to help kids build a business. And if it doesn\u2019t hit a $1 million valuation by graduation, the school says it\u2019ll refund your tuition \u2014 which runs you $150,000 a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlpha School proved that AI can compress a full day of academics into three hours while consistently outperforming traditional schools on standardized tests,\u201d its website claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A person pours a liquid into a bowl at Omakase at Barracks Row Restaurant. The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cFounders School adds 1,000+ hours per year of hands-on entrepreneurial experience on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New York City high school promises pupils will \u201clearn to think, sell, and ship, harnessing AI to futureproof [their] skills and career.\u201d<\/p>\n
A trojan horse replica in Turkey. De Agostini via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The school says that by the end of the first year, students will have a business worth more than $50,000, and by sophomore year they\u2019ll be ready to hire their first staff members. By the end of 10th grade, they say the company will run without its \u201cfounder.\u201d<\/p>\n
The school says kids will be done with classes by 11 a.m., and that \u2014 somewhat ominously \u2014 they can work on their companies \u201cuntil dark.\u201d Baby burnout!<\/p>\n
We previously reported on Alpha\u2019s $40,500 summer camp where \u201cevery afternoon opens up into hands-on workshops where kids build, move, pitch, create, and do things that seem impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who needs a childhood when you can have preferred stock? Page Six hears that Alpha School \u2014 the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,12326,1251,30600,7585],"class_list":["post-91884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bill-ackman","tag-lifestyle","tag-nyc","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}