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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. ...

@#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?

@#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?

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

Did they contact us?

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