Anthropic has joined the U.S. government’s “Pledge to America’s Youth: Investing in AI Education.” It made three main commitments:
- A $1 million investment over three years into PicoCTF, a program by Carnegie Mellon. PicoCTF gives middle and high school students hands-on cybersecurity training. It aims especially to help underserved communities.
- Support for the new Presidential AI Challenge, which has students, educators, and mentors use AI to solve local problems.
- Development and release of an AI Fluency curriculum for K-12 and higher education teachers. The curriculum will be under a Creative Commons license so anyone can use, adapt, or share it. It’s designed to work with any AI system so schools with fewer resources can still participate.
Anthropic also shared data showing how students and educators already use AI. They saw students working on complex tasks like analysis and creation, while teachers use AI for designing lessons and tools. Anthropic wants its new efforts to build on that real-world usage.
