OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools, at K-12 Level
2026-05-04 15:18 UTC
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@reddig33@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 15:50
And by “literacy” they mean “promoting the use of”.
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@Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 15:36
So the mega corps that need AI to be integrated into every facet of our society are now going to force feed AI down your children's throats. Isn't this country the best?
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@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-04 16:06
With all this discourse about AI one thing just keeps being the best indicator for something being wrong: If it were so great and pefect, it wouldnt need to be forced into everything. People would just integrate it themselves.
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-05-04 16:57
> AI literacy Meaning know less, understand less, depend on our product so you will become a good mindless drone that we can control? Seriously, what the fuck is there to know about AI for the average joe? Nothing, that is the entire point. This literally is about creating dependency and I would not allow my kids to have to follow such a shit education
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@mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2026-05-04 18:41
"literacy" -> marketing
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@pipi1234@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 20:31
This is akin to promoting the use of a product as mandatory in the school system. Oh yes, line cow milk.
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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-05-05 07:21
How about including an AI disinformation in this literacy class? Or using AI as a search engine to do fact checking. But I think they really mean "use AI for everything in schools and feed the data back to us" classes.
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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-05-04 21:04
Yet gun education is still not a thing
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-05-05 15:03
They want to make future generations unable to think for themselves, and to be dependent on their tech their whole lives
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@Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 16:36
The education needs to happen, but not for the reasons they are doing it - kids need to know how ai works so they know *why* it doesn't in many cases. Disspelling the magic answer machine idea from everyone's minds starts with learning how it works and how it doesn't.
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@honesthenery@thelemmy.club 2026-05-05 05:15
gross
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@LLMhater1312@piefed.social 2026-05-04 17:39
Cool create the problem, make the public pay for it
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@BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 16:23
We really need to address the schooling issue.
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@Witchfire@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 17:21
They don't want literate people. The majority of American adults read below a sixth grade level, and about a quarter are functionally illiterate - [source](https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics) (Though my personal favorite statistic from that page is that 2/3 of illiterate Americans were born in the US, who often the same people who complain endlessly about immigrants speaking multiple languages)
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-05-05 07:34
AI literacy as in using AI to answer all your questions, aka brainrot.
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@illi@piefed.social 2026-05-04 23:38
> the best practices (actually learning the techinal not just "write these types of prompts.") With Google and Microslop pushing for this, I imagine the important parts beyond "this is how you prompt" will _somehow_ get left out.