They want to make future generations unable to think for themselves, and to be dependent on their tech their whole lives
We really need to address the schooling issue.
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.
You mean not using AI for fact checking?!?
Like, teaching them how to fact check everything AI says, because it’s rubbish?
I mean as a search engine it is more efficient than google as it stands. And it can give references. Like everything though it can be forced to be biased and enshittified so hard to predict if it will stay that way.
It’s not forced to be bias they have that inherently built in.
And they will make up refrences all the time, or even “understand” wrong.
LLMs have their use cases along side search engines but they aren’t replacement for them
they already have data how AI hurts students ability to read and write proficiently.
gross
Wow, they fund AI literacy, but…. Actual literacy is a problem
AI literacy as in using AI to answer all your questions, aka brainrot.
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
(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)
Is that stat just English literacy?
If someone can read Spanish but not English, are they deemed illiterate?
How do I test my own reading level?
And by “literacy” they mean “promoting the use of”.
This is akin to promoting the use of a product as mandatory in the school system. Oh yes, line cow milk.
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?
“literacy” -> marketing
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.
Yet gun education is still not a thing
I’m usually opposed to teaching abstinence, but I’d much rather teach abstinence to gun use than teach kids how to load and store a firearm safely.
Regular education is barely a thing.
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
I mean, it could be like information literacy
The course would be sure to tell all kids that AI is not intelligent, should never be trusted, and teach kids how to fact check everything that it says.
The end result should be that kids learn that it takes more work to get facts when using AI.
Read the article. And the definition in the bill is “teach how to use the technology.” In the same way you are taught how to use a computer.
Down side it makes the software more accepted. But at the same time the best practices (actually learning the techinal not just “write these types of prompts.”) Would result in disillusion of the BS hype as your seeing the Actual Indian behind the curtain
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.
Oddly enough it wouldn’t. After all someone has to keep the LLM models maintained and we are not at a stage of AI self maintain itself
(Still distopia, speaking as a programming major, LLM maintance wasn’t why I took that degree track.)
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.
We don’t need a new course for this. It just needs to be appended to existing information literacy courses
Thats the one thing that is a necessary out of all of this. Its already out there, so learning the fundamentals and its limitations is the best case. It should be highly applicable to the concepts of LLMs which are broader and can be used for good purposes.
Of course, the techy kids and even teenagers may dabble in AI in their free time, with a bit more thought put in. Even if gen alpha isnt the most fond with AI.
Cool create the problem, make the public pay for it
