alt Hacker NewsI thought AI was so easy to use no one would have to be trained? Are they going to teach the kids to steal copyrighted data? And write AI slop articles? And to evangelize useless side projects as time savings?
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It's K12 so I'm honestly not going to try to take that dunk, as satisfying as it'd be, as plenty of things which seem blazingly obvious/intuitive to adults are complete mystery to a pool of kids where being able to read to learn (instead of the other way around) is a recent development.
Unfortunately, the AI literacy big tech companies want to push won't align very well with the AI literacy kids need. It'd be like ad literacy for K12 being pushed by Google - obviously what's delivered would not match what the kids actually needed.
If you're curious about these questions, you'll be happy to review the links from the source article, which include statements from two Senators and the head of the largest US teacher's union about what they hope for kids to learn.
Kids don't need to be trained in AI but the models do need to be trained by kids.