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Boosting AI Education In Low-Income Schools Is A Goal Of A Microsoft-Google-Backed Group

March 7, 2023
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There is a lot of concern about whether AI resources are appropriate for school, especially in light of the fact that students are using ChatGPT for their term papers and homework. The group, according to Alex Kotran, aims to ensure that these tools are applied even more.

Kotran is the CEO of the AI Education Project (aiEDU), a nonprofit organization supported by businesses including AT&T Inc., Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft Corp. that offers free resources and teacher training to increase student knowledge of AI. The goal is to train young people for careers that require AI by teaching them about the tech, its potential and limitations.

During the South by Southwest EDU conference in Austin, Texas, the group is unveiling a nationwide call for AI education on Tuesday along with an extended roster of supporters and partner institutions. As of now, aiEDU has connected with districts serving 1.5 million underserved and low-income children across the nation, reaching 100,000 students.

Kotran anticipated that it would take some time until there was a significant demand from instructors for these programs when the non-profit was created in 2019. When the band became popular, we were sort of the ones sporting the T-shirt, he added. Instead, the success of apps like OpenAI's chatbots and Dall-E, its tool for digital photos, has significantly increased demand for generative AI, and the firm has seen a rise in demand.

The emphasis is on students and underprivileged communities, in part because some of those groups are more likely to suffer from automation and a skills gap brought on by AI. While Kotran claimed to have been in San Francisco in 2018, his mother, an Akron, Ohio public school teacher, made a remark about how she hoped her pupils were studying about the technology.


How is it possible that high school pupils aren't learning about the future of work, much alone artificial intelligence, in Akron, Ohio, which is on the Brookings Institution's list of 20 cities most at risk for robotic job displacement?, he asked. He discovered that there was no set curriculum or prerequisite for learning about AI in the US.


Nvidia Corp., Intel Corp., GSV Ventures, Verizon Communications Inc., and charitable organizations like Teach for America and the Boys and Girls Club are a few additional backers.


In addition to working with public educational agencies in Atlanta, Spokane, Washington, and Anaheim, California, Kotran's team is also collaborating with Educational Service Centers, which are collections of school districts serving 420,000 children in Texas, 300,000 in Wisconsin, and 250,000 in Ohio. The objective is to prepare these students for careers that, in a few years, might favor or require expertise with AI programs.


Although AI would not directly replace people, Kotran predicted that skilled AI users would eventually take their position. Students who have experience using a tool or have understanding on how to utilize one will be completely outclassed by those who don't, according to the researcher.

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