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Technologists Welcome Executive Order on AI

By Bill Dubensky May 11, 2025 | 9:16 AM

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(By: Paige Gross. States Newsroom) – Education software experts say they’re cautiously optimistic about a Trump administration drive to incorporate AI into classrooms, but such a program needs clear goals, specific rules — and enough money to fund the costly systems.

“AI is, inherently, really expensive,” said Ryan Trattner, CTO of AI-assisted studying tool Study Fetch. “It’s not something that scales like a normal piece of software where it might be the same price for 1,000 people to use it as 100,000.”

Among a handful of education-related executive orders in April, President Donald Trump released an order to incorporate artificial intelligence education, training and literacy in K-12 schools for both students and teachers.

The move is in line with other actions Trump has taken to promote quick growth of artificial intelligence in the U.S., including rolling back the 2023 Biden administration executive order that aimed to promote competition within the AI industry while creating guidelines for responsible government use of the technology. Introducing AI to grade school children is meant to create an “AI-ready workforce and the next generation of American AI innovators,” the order said.

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