OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
A bipartisan bill called the LIFT AI Act, introduced by Senator Adam Schiff, aims to integrate AI literacy into K-12 education through funding for curricula, teacher training, and evaluation tools. Major tech companies including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, as well as the American Federation of Teachers, support the initiative. The bill comes amid concerns over AI's impact on education and student well-being, while the National Science Foundation currently lacks a director and oversight board.
- ▪The LIFT AI Act would fund AI literacy programs in K-12 schools through competitive grants administered by the National Science Foundation.
- ▪Supporters of the bill include OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, HP Inc., and the American Federation of Teachers.
- ▪AI literacy is defined as the ability to use, interpret, and responsibly engage with AI technologies in an age-appropriate manner.
- ▪The National Science Foundation has been without a director for a year, and President Trump recently dismissed all 22 members of its oversight board.
- ▪Senator Adam Schiff previously criticized Big Tech's data center expansion but now has the backing of major AI companies for his education bill.
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A new, bipartisan bill introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world—including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in “AI literacy,” something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools.The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT AI Act, would empower the new director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grant awards “on a merit-reviewed, competitive basis to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations (or a consortium thereof) to support research activities to develop educational curricula, instructional material, teacher professional development, and evaluation methods for AI literacy at the K–12 level,” the…
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