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 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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