alt Hacker NewsIf by "AI literacy" they mean "learning how AI works and how to use it effectively", then this probably would wind up backfiring. Because when you improve people's AI literacy, they use it less. They don't swear off it, but because they know what it is and is not good for, they are way more cautious in their application of AI.
Of course, they probably plan to do to education what iPads did to education: deskill children. Apple successfully abliterated the concept of a file from a generation of students by making them do their computing in a straitjacket. I can only imagine how an AI-first or AI-only educational curriculum could make kids even worse at using computers.
> They don't swear off it, but because they know what it is and is not good for, they are way more cautious in their application of AI.
Like the time I got given a swelling tablet at work to dispose of and had to go through phone tag to get an answer on what to do with it or how dangerous it was. And my coworker asked "if [I] tried asking AI?" I said I am not relying on ChatGPT for something that might explode, I'll wait for the person who's paid to tell me about this thing that might explode.