10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them

Bhaskar Chakravorti,

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the dean of global business at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.An illustration shows an AI / robot hand touching fingers with the hand of a small child. In the background are smears on a chalkboard.Foreign Policy illustration/iStock photo

With a new record set for the number of executive orders (EOs) by any U.S. president in their first 100 days, you could be forgiven for missing EO 14277, titled “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth,” that came right after 

the EO that restores U.S. seafood competitiveness. In the deluge of President Trump’s EOs, 14277 is 34 orders away from the one aimed at closing the Department of Education—the very department assigned to do the heavy lifting of advancing AI education at the K-12 level. 

Fortunately, students might already be adept at how to use AI tools. Where deeper education may be needed is in building awareness of how AI is posing “new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor,” as Pope Leo XIV has noted in his concerns.

To relieve the soon-to-be-shuttered Department of Education of the immense burden of teaching about AI’s “new challenges,” I have assembled a 10-point lesson plan and, for each point, one potential remedy.