alt Hacker NewsThe conflict of interest is pretty obvious. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are backing a bill that funds teaching kids to use... OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft products. "AI literacy" as defined in the bill is literally "the ability to use artificial intelligence effectively." That's not literacy, that's onboarding lol. Real digital literacy teaches how systems work, who profits from them, and how to think critically about them. This bill will in practice hand curriculum design to the same vendors who endorsed it. Teaching kids to prompt ChatGPT is not the same as teaching them to understand what ChatGPT is. Nobody funding this wants the latter.
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wouldn't it be fun to hear the lobbyists' reactions to "Great idea, we'll run an instance of DeepSeek locally in the school's computer lab, trained with data from each individual school for a personalized experience. Thanks for the money, guys!"
we'd have raised a generation of users not builders. thats exactly whats about to happen with AI if this passes as written.