9d • AI Policy & Ethics
The Trust Problem
Here's a number that stopped me this week: "88% of students are already using AI in their learning. Only 29% of them believe their teacher actually knows what to do about it."
My first reaction wasn't calm, if I'm honest. It took me a minute to get there.
Here's where I landed, and where I hope you land too: that gap was never a training problem. It's not about teachers falling behind on tools. It's a confidence and identity problem, and it's been building quietly for a while, in the space where nobody said anything clearly out loud. Students aren't losing trust because we don't know how to use the tools. They're losing trust because the standards have been implied instead of spoken.
The fix was never catching up on the technology. It's standing on a framework, and having the conversation on purpose, the first day, instead of discovering the breakdown later and reaching for a detector.
When you first read a stat like that one, what was your honest gut reaction, relief that someone finally said it, defensiveness, or something else entirely?
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