A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.
They don’t want literate people. The majority of American adults read below a sixth grade level, and about a quarter are functionally illiterate - source
(Though my personal favorite statistic from that page is that 2/3 of illiterate Americans were born in the US, who often the same people who complain endlessly about immigrants speaking multiple languages)
Wow, they fund AI literacy, but…. Actual literacy is a problem
AI literacy as in using AI to answer all your questions, aka brainrot.
They don’t want literate people. The majority of American adults read below a sixth grade level, and about a quarter are functionally illiterate - source
(Though my personal favorite statistic from that page is that 2/3 of illiterate Americans were born in the US, who often the same people who complain endlessly about immigrants speaking multiple languages)
Is that stat just English literacy?
If someone can read Spanish but not English, are they deemed illiterate?
How do I test my own reading level?