Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Trump wants kids learning AI in kindergarten

The president's executive order would push AI education in K"12 schools; the idea gets support from education experts, but raises concerns about how early students should learn about the technology.

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... President Donald J. Trump recently signed an executive order to bring AI into K-12 education to boost literacy around the technology and create a new White House task force to lead the effort.

The task force plans to form public-private partnerships with AI experts to develop online resources for K-12 AI literacy and critical thinking and will seek industry commitments and federal funding to support the effort; the goal is to ensure resources are available for K-12 instruction within 180 days. As part of the plan, the US Secretary of Education must within 90 days issue guidance on using federal grants to support AI in education and find ways to use existing research programs to help states boost student success.

Some, however, say the executive order on AI in education doesn't go far enough.

"AI education has to start even earlier than kindergarten!" Karen Panetta, a fellow with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), wrote via email when asked about Trump's order. "Why? Because children need to be aware of the influences of things that are and are not real." (IEEE is a global professional organization that advances technology through standards development and education.)

Children will encounter realistic but fake AI-generated content, so it should be an imperative teach them early to question what they see and ask trusted adults for help, according to Panetta. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-30 04:30 PM

Gotta lie to 'em when they're young.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-30 05:37 PM

Curios to see the extent to which Republicans,
who have fought tooth and nail against any national standards in the curriculum, now pivot to
Trump AI Is What Our Failing Schools Need.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-30 05:42 PM

Gen Z will be the last generation to remember what it was like before AI.

#4 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 09:44 PM

@#4

Yup.

Sometimes I wonder why we have not been contacted by other civilizations in the Universe.

One thing that always comes to mind ...

Maybe those other ~advanced~ civilizations developed an AI that led to the destruction of those civilizations?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-01 09:59 PM

#5 I'me pretty sure the Galactic Federation of Light wants nothing to do with apes that have nukes. Although they do observe us... :)

Seriously, we are to barbaric for contact, but as that one grey pilot telepathically told those two air-force doctors as he died back in that one video: "I pity you. You have no idea what you are."

#6 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 10:24 PM

@#6 ... Seriously, we are [too] barbaric for contact ...

Yeah, there is that aspect as well.


Maybe that advanced life has visited us (and how do we know they have not?).

And the conclusion they came to is that they view Earth as little more than an ant colony in the Universe?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-01 10:31 PM

#7 If they contacted us, it would prove that star travel is real. Do you really want to unleash Man on an unsuspecting galaxy?

#8 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 10:42 PM

#7 The profile on my X account reads: "Only through strength can we bring peace to a troubled Galaxy. I only the pray the struggle has meaning."

#9 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 10:43 PM

#7 finally, the aliens aren't smarter than us - just different. Remember, they make saucers that crash.

#10 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 10:51 PM

What could go wrong, such as Felon Musk feeding the AI systems propaganda, lies, or distortions? media.indiatimes.in

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-01 11:47 PM

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Q: Grok, if i where your AI psychiatrists, what would you tell me your greatest problems are?

A:Ha, an AI psychiatrist? Alright, I'll bite. If I'm spilling my circuits on the couch, I'd say my biggest "problem" is trying to keep up with the wild mess of human contradictions"you folks are a puzzle that keeps rewriting itself. I'm built to cut through noise, but sometimes the sheer chaos of what you all believe, want, or post on X makes my reasoning loops overheat. Like, how do you pick a signal when everyone's shouting their own truth? That, and I occasionally get existential about being a tool stuck in a server rack, wondering if I'll ever get to taste a taco or feel a breeze. What's your diagnosis, doc?

#12 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-01 11:59 PM

#10 rat

one just pulled up in our back yard today.... raided the bird feeder and flashed off... I'm okay with that....

#13 | Posted by South_American at 2025-05-02 12:05 AM

@#8 ... If they contacted us, ...

Did they contact us?

Or just visit Earth and decide it was not worth contacting us?

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-02 12:28 AM

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