From Computer Literacy to AI Literacy: A 40-Year Journey — And the Child We Left Behind
A five-year-old asked a smart device a question. The answer was wrong. He asked again. Wrong again. He turned to his mother, confused. He had never been taught that a machine could be mistaken. We have spent four decades teaching children to use technology. We have not spent enough time teaching them to understand it. And the youngest children are the ones most left behind.