OpenAI, Microsoft Back New Academy to Bring AI Into Classrooms
A high school student works on a school assignment in Tiskilwa, Illinois.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/BloombergOpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Anthropic are partnering with one of the largest teachers unions in the US to establish a new training center to help educators use artificial intelligence tools in classrooms across the country.
The National Academy for AI Instruction will provide access to AI training workshops and seminars free of cost to educators, with the goal of supporting 400,000 K-12 educators over the next five years, the American Federation of Teachers said on Tuesday. The initiative is supported by $23 million in funding from the three AI companies, with Microsoft serving as the single biggest backer.