As Artificial Intelligence takes a greater role and more responsibility in education with backing from the United Nations and Big Tech, President Donald Trump just signed an executive order promoting AI instruction in all American schools. The goal, he said, is to ensure that American children and workers have the knowledge and skills to participate in and adapt to the emerging digital world.
The April 23 order, titled Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth, states that the U.S. government’s policy is to promote AI literacy and proficiency among Americans. That will be done by integrating AI into education, providing AI training to educators, and trying to expose children to AI technology and concepts as early as possible.
“To ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution, we must provide our Nation’s youth with opportunities to cultivate the skills and understanding necessary to use and create the next generation of AI technology,” Trump said in his order. “By fostering AI competency, we will equip our students with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to adapt to and thrive in an increasingly digital society.”
Not everyone is enthusiastic. Prominent technology analyst and author Joe Allen, a regular on Trump ally Steve Bannon’s War Room program, expressed major reservations about the order. “Kids should definitely learn about AI. But this EO also pushes for kids to be taught by AI,” he warned. “Conditioning the next generation to view AI as an authority is a repulsive strategy. It isn’t teaching them to ‘use tools.’ It is training them to be tools.”
The order created an “AI Education Task Force” to implement and coordinate the plan. It includes cabinet secretaries from the departments of education, labor, agriculture, energy, as well as several key advisors and assistants to the president on everything from AI and crypto to policy. The Task Force will also create an AI “Challenge” to encourage and highlight student and educator achievement.
Another key mission for the new Task Force will be to establish “public-private partnerships” with AI organizations, academic institutions, non-profit groups, and more. The goal of these “PPPs,” as they are called, is to create online resources for teaching AI literacy. Those resources will then be used to help state and local educational programs in teaching AI.
Training educators on AI is major part of the executive order. Under the plan, the U.S. Department of Education will use grant money to offer “teacher training.” This is supposed to help teach educators how to reduce time-intensive administrative tasks, integrate AI into all subject areas, and more. The plan also seeks to promote apprenticeships in AI-related fields.
“Early learning and exposure to AI concepts not only demystifies this powerful technology but also sparks curiosity and creativity, preparing students to become active and responsible participants in the workforce of the future and nurturing the next generation of American AI innovators to propel our Nation to new heights of scientific and economic achievement,” President Trump said in the order.
One major concern expressed by critics is that AI may eventually replace human educators. In fact, as The Newman Report documented in 2023, billionaire population-control zealot Bill Gates suggested at a “digital learning” conference in California that AI would rapidly take over more and more duties traditionally assigned to educators in the very near future.
AI will soon be “as good a tutor as any human could,” said Gates, who funded Common Core after signing a deal with the United Nations to globalize education with technology two decades ago. “This should be a leveler … because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you’ve done and look across your entire body of work.”
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which partnered with Gates, has been leading the charge to inject AI into education. Indeed, on its website, UNESCO boasted about AI was helping revolutionize education during COVID. UNESCO, the site said, “is supporting the efforts of Member States in leveraging AI for equitable and quality education.”
In 2019, the UN brought governments from around the world together in Beijing for a summit on AI in education. The “Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education,” adopted by governments at the conference, called on government education systems worldwide to use AI to shape the values of people in a manner consistent with UN views on everything from gender and the environment to economics and governance.
Of course, it is important for children to keep up with new technologies such as AI. But the dangers of AI — especially AI systems programmed by evildoers — are orders of magnitude greater when it comes to shaping the minds and values of the next generation. And this danger is compounded when national and even international authorities are involved, akin to putting all of one’s eggs in one basket. Caution is desperately needed.
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Cart before horse. Education in critical thinking must precede AI implementation by students. AI is vulnerable to propaganda embedded in the web from which AI heavily draws. AI should be treated with the skepticism appropriate to its status as a field of study. There is a parallel between AI and evidentiary law which is wary of the fruit of the poisoned tree.
Yes, like most things created by men, AI can be used for good or evil! My counsel is turn to Jesus and live! As for me and my house we will serve the LORD. Then you will know at some point, your citizenship is in heaven, not on earth. Matthew 6:19-21 ESV — “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Yes! Turn FIRST to the Creator of the Universe, learn the ways of the Kingdom of Heaven. Only after this, introduce awareness of AI – not necessarily the use of – until critical thinking skills have taken root.
Gee I am so glad Trump wants government out of education. Please note my sarcasm.
Sarcasm so noted 😀 !!!
Charlotte Iserbyt became a whistleblower under Reagan, in large part, due to how technology was going to be used in K-12.
We were warned about false prophets. Is #47 a false prophet? Is this a rhetorical question?
Artificial Intelligence is just what its name label implicitly communicates — it’s a synthetic attempt to replicate organic human thinking, reasoning & self-awareness & is a trojan horse conceived of & promoted by the evil one as part of his overall plan to corrupt the beautiful, organic world our Creator, God/LORD & Savior (& Spirit!) made to house the crown of His creation — humankind. Since the fall in the garden, satan has sought to invert, pervert & replicate synthetically (while corrupting & radically altering) everything that God Himself created, in an effort to claim the altered version for himself and his dark kingdom. All (p)harmaceuticals, allopathic/babylonian medicine, finance, & political systems, genetically-modified animals, insects, fruits & vegetables, and now humans via DNA-altering jabs and heavily saturated chemtrailed/geoengineered skies, the pollution of the soil, air, water & food supplies (currently under assault to induce worldwide food shortages) –the systems and machinations of governance in all its forms (did God ORDAIN civil governments beyond self-governance & familial governance or have men insisted that we have a mediated relationship with Him — be it priest, pastor or governor — when He Himself is Our Savior King & LORD & warned us of what would happen with an intermediary other than Christ Jesus?) — the “faith community” is infatuated with the world systems and continue to emulate and incorporate the pagan aspects of society into their daily living to prove somehow that we can “relate” to the unsaved and somehow “reach” them when as it has always been and will always be — God Himself via His Spirit is working in the hearts and minds of those He desires to draw them to Himself (through His Holy Spirit convicting & wooing them) and to provide, at the right time, someone to share with them the news that they are NOT of this world, that they can be co-crucified with Christ, raised to NEW LIFE – ETERNAL LIFE — HIS LIFE and as new (never before seen in the earth) creations, walk in newness of life, COMPLETE IN HIM, having been given EVERYTHING pertaining to life & Godliness, no longer subject to the things of this world and to live as pilgrims and strangers and aliens here — not getting MORE COMFORTABLE and “adapting” to the devil’s latest innovations, so we can “fit” into an unfit, condemned and decaying world, but standing apart and daring to be different because we are not part of this fallen system that is already terminally ill and will one day be burned with fire, the elements melting and a new heaven and earth replacing them? AI may not be literally demon possessed, but those programming it/training it/coddling & pushing its inclusion into every facet of our lives are pushing doctrines of demons and are incrementally inducing dependence & ultimately servitude by the masses to machines, with whom they long to merge into their transhumanist/posthumanist dream – that is satan’s dream of robbing God of His beautiful unocrrupted people — who have been marked for the beast system and therefore marked for separation forever from God. WE should not flirt with, encourage or endeavor to promote accpetance or interaction with dangerous technology of any kind, most especially that which is BY DESIGN AND INTENT, here to degrade us further, and to enslave & rule over us, even as we in each successive generation are further and further removed from the pure gene pool that our original ancestors once enjoyed — that has severely eroded down through the generations, polluted and weakened, so that we are barely able to discern our esteemed place of honor — of the purposeful choice our LORD has made in both creating us to extend the circle of fellowship He, the Son & Spirit have had from before eternity and to include us in their fellowship and exchange of love and nurtured care that typifies their mutual sharing and exchange — why have we so easily fallen for the things of this world — the shiny distractions and allure of things that are rapidly passing away — let’s distinguish ourselves as people of faith and hope and love, not as those who are “saved but just like everyone else” as though such a thing could actually exist — with Him or against Him — not comfortable with the world system, but hoping for something better someday off in some future we don’t even consider could be beckoning us now, and may even be at our doorstep…
Thank you for this important article, Alex, and for the many excellent comments by people who are as leery as I am of AI being used in the classroom. I also believe AI is not from God but is from Satan. Satan is the author of lies and deception. AI can have some truth in it, but also lies. How will a student know the difference? I remember hearing a question that was asked directly of an AI robot unit. When he was asked, “Who are you?” He replied, “I am a demon.” All this is just one more reason why parents need to home school or put their children in a private Christian school that does not use AI, or be part of the school program that Alex Newman recommends and is using for his children.
AI is neither panacea nor technological satan. It’s a tool. Period. Full stop. That, of course, means people will misuse it, just like they do with smartphones.
Second, here’s a thought about education: let’s return to the days when teachers taught what they were hired to teach so that kids might be able to read and do math at grade level. That they can recite 50 permutations of gender expression is NOT a life or job skill. Neither is seems themselves as victims or oppressors.