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Candidate warns of untested AI being pushed into classrooms by venture capitalists
Summary
Beck said venture capitalists are introducing untested AI tools to students and tied that concern to the need to fix education funding and oversight of ed‑tech deployments.
Beck said education funding must be addressed but voiced alarm about private-sector pressure to deploy untested AI tools in schools. "We need to fix our education funding but right now we have venture capitalists shoving untested AI technologies in front of students," she said.
She framed the issue as both a funding and regulatory problem: without proper investment in schools and oversight of technology, students may be exposed to unsafe or inappropriate systems. Beck called for federal attention to both funding and regulation to protect students as AI is incorporated into classrooms.
