Without universal AI literacy, AI will fail us

Mar 17, 2022

A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Center at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in Brussels, Belgium February 19, 2020. AI literacy will be essential in managing technologies like these as the technology becomes ever more advanced.

AI literacy will help us navigate a world that will inevitably come to be shaped by AI Image: REUTERS

Kay Firth-Butterfield

Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

Leila Toplic

Chief Communications and Trust Officer, Carbonfuture

Aubra Anthony

Strategy & Research Team Lead, USAID, Technology Division

Emily Reid

Interim CEO, AI4All

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