New nationwide program utilizing AI in schools, will turn kids into 'robots' warn critics

Dukes and Jackson, both with No Left Turn in Education, said parents should be concerned about how AI is being used in schools, and what information it may gather on students. Educators at over 120 school districts across the United States are in the process of implementing an education program critics believe is a top-down approach to manipulate student's values and beliefs through the embrace of government programs and a dependence on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The program, called Learning 2025, and implemented by the School Superintendent's Association, (AASA) calls for a "holistic redesign" of the United States' public education system by 2025, with an eye toward equity and technology. But districts across the country have already started rolling out the program. Critics of the program have concerns with its potential use of artificial intelligence (AI), which they say could lead to treating students like "robots."