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Subcommittee advances broad AI education bill, members debate teacher training timeline
Summary
House Bill 531, a broad measure to introduce age-appropriate instruction on artificial intelligence in Tennessee schools, advanced out of the Education Instruction Subcommittee after members debated when teachers would receive training and when the curriculum would take effect.
The Education Instruction Subcommittee voted to report House Bill 531 to full Education, with the clerk recording 3 ayes and 1 nay.
Chairman Farmer, the bill sponsor, described HB 531 as a "very broad, basic bill" intended to begin incorporating concepts of artificial intelligence into the K-12 education system so students "have what they need to learn and to keep up" with global developments. "This is a fairly broad bill and it was broad on purpose so we could build onto it and make it more…
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