Teaching kids to spot when AI confidently makes things up is genuinely useful. Frankly, plenty of adults could use that class too. The real test is whether schools teach children to question the machine, or just train the next generation to accept whatever a chatbot says with excellent grammar.
People could use “common sense” class. Many have problems with deciding who/what is trustworthy enough. Plus some basic explanation of how LLMs work in principle might help tremendously with that overtrust issue.
Teaching kids to spot when AI confidently makes things up is genuinely useful. Frankly, plenty of adults could use that class too. The real test is whether schools teach children to question the machine, or just train the next generation to accept whatever a chatbot says with excellent grammar.
People could use “common sense” class. Many have problems with deciding who/what is trustworthy enough. Plus some basic explanation of how LLMs work in principle might help tremendously with that overtrust issue.