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AP Shares How Schools Are Approaching AI Literacy
Jocelyn Gecker and Russ Bynum write the following in “Schools Are Starting to Teach AI Literacy. For Many, That Means Helping Kids See Chatbots’ Flaws” for the Associated Press (AP): After initially trying to ban AI use, a growing number of U.S. public schools are trying a new strategy: encouraging classroom experimentation, partly so students can see its shortcomings, including generative AI’s notorious tendency to ‘hallucinate,’ or fabricate information. AI literacy has become a buzzword of this back-to-school season as educators try to strike a balance between equipping students with the skills they need for an AI-driven future while preventing them from outsourcing their thinking to chatbots. For more information, read the article.
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