LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) — Senator Jon Husted is working on a bill to ensure all U.S. students are prepared to use the growing tool of artificial intelligence. Husted visited Rhodes State College to see how the school has incorporated AI into classrooms—not just in computer technology, but also in manufacturing, nursing, and other career pathways. Students are shown how to use artificial intelligence to make processes more efficient and effective.
Husted introduced the Recommending Artificial Intelligence Standards in Education, or RAISE, Act, which would add AI and technology literacy to elementary and high school curricula to help the United States remain competitive in the global market.
“Employers from the Lima area who want to compete with the rest of the world. Need a workforce with those skills, because that's who they're up against and having assets like they have here at roads really does help prepare the local workforce to help the local employers compete. It's good for everybody. Employers are more competitive. People have more job security and higher earning power,” said Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio.
“Work that we are doing to create educational pathways and leveraging artificial intelligence AI across our curriculum, not just an AI curriculum. Really do align with his vision, and I think he calls it the raise act, and so that is to put AI and integrate it into elementary and high schools, and so we'll be really glad to receive those students with a foundation for AI so we can advance our curriculum to take them to the next level," said Dr. Cynthia Spiers, president of Rhodes State College.
Husted says artificial intelligence needs to be a constructive part of the educational process, and he wants states to set AI standards in classrooms rather than the federal government.
