The 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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devanshranjan 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

we'd have raised a generation of users not builders. thats exactly whats about to happen with AI if this passes as written.

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andrekandre 2 days ago | parent [-]

well, tv got that ball rolling a few generations ago; people learn by doing not watching something else do it for them, now ai will not just tell them or show them but do it as well it would seem...

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duzer65657 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

this is what apple products did as well. They turned something that took some effort and desire (i.e. using a computer) into streamlined entertainment. Watch someone use their phone; it's passive, one-way consumption.

	▲	andrekandre 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		apple is an especially sad case in some respects as steve used to call the mac "a bycicle for the mind" and NeXT was originally a computer/os for higher-ed... but with products like the iphone, locking it down and keeping things passive is the best way to monetize it (sadly)

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rexpop 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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gosub100 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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!"