00:00Now, recognize Mr. Rooley for five minutes, the representative from Ohio.
00:04Thank you so much, Chairman.
00:05I appreciate that.
00:06Mr. Chisholm, I think everyone's a little nervous about AI, just in general, but also
00:11optimistic for what the future could possibly hold.
00:15Could you share some of your stories with you about students and this tool and the ability
00:19to excel them as a student in America?
00:22Absolutely.
00:24I'm happy to do that.
00:25It really begins with the teacher, you know, and again, I don't want you to think that
00:29I'm saying that we need to teach elementary and middle school students how to use AI.
00:32That's not what we're doing.
00:33We're really focused on kids that are in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
00:37And again, the idea is to teach them to use this, but also to teach them to use this in
00:41an ethical way.
00:42And in our trainings and the things that we do with teachers in training students, what
00:46we talk about are really two things.
00:48And that is, if you can use this as the perfect assistant and the perfect search engine, you
00:53know, you're using it in an ethical way.
00:55There's a big difference between having an AI program right for you and an AI program
01:00right with you.
01:01Those are two completely different things.
01:03And what we've seen, especially in the writing, I just gave you that example from that teacher,
01:07right?
01:08You know, she can now do these things.
01:10What I wasn't paying attention to at the time, I was helping her.
01:13But what we're now doing, instead of writing a paper every 10 days, we're writing a paper
01:17almost every day.
01:19So again, and then this opens up other things, you know, in some of our tech classes as well.
01:23It gives them new ideas and new ways to take this.
01:26And I think that is the power of AI, is the idea that it can give you ideas that you haven't
01:31thought of, because it's got access to the full internet.
01:35So again, there are a thousand stories that I could share, but that just gives you an
01:39overview of the direction that we're going and the way that we're using it.
01:42But I will tell you, it starts with the teacher.
01:43It starts with administrators and teachers.
01:46If they're not on board first, our kids are not going to use it in the right way.
01:49I really appreciate that.
01:50And you know, being a parent and also looking back in my own mind's eye, when you look at
01:55a subject like AI, it's a little contradictory in my own mind about the love and the hate
02:00and the scariness of it.
02:01I think, you know, the idea that it could cure cancer with AI and you could have these
02:04kids learn in ways they never possibly could.
02:06But do you have a little quick piece of advice for mom and dad that maybe are a little bit
02:10worried about the guardrails?
02:11You know, some of us were raised, you know, watching the Terminator.
02:14And I mean, that's obviously hopefully not going to ever happen.
02:17But do you have anything to calm down mom and dad?
02:20You know, I get that a lot in every presentation I give.
02:24There is a healthy fear, and I think we should have a healthy fear of it.
02:27You know, I think for parents, it is the communication piece with their own kid, and it is making
02:31sure that they are also teaching good habits to kids with this.
02:35You know, I think one of the scary things is, and there are models out there that are
02:39completely open that have no guardrails.
02:41And I think that's one thing that scares me a little bit.
02:43You know, you can actually go to olama.com and you can download any model that you want.
02:47Some have the guardrails taken off.
02:48If a kid is in the tech world and knows how to do this, that can be a scary proposition
02:53for a child.
02:54So I think, again, monitoring what your kids do and having good conversations on what good
03:01behavior on this looks like is no different than social media or using the internet in
03:04general.
03:05I appreciate that also.
03:07And finally, probably my most passionate question I have for you, I was on the school board
03:11for eight years, and I worked with students very closely.
03:13I was very hands-on approach, especially when I was the president of the school board.
03:18But I want to take focus on AI, and I want to concentrate on IEP or 504 plans are probably
03:25my top priority that I've always been in school, and I know a lot of moms out there and dads
03:28are worried about this.
03:30Can you talk about AI and the potential to help our students with disabilities and how
03:33exciting that could be for their future in learning?
03:36Oh, my goodness, that's fabulous.
03:38My wife is actually a special education director in the district, so I've created several things
03:42for our teachers to use.
03:44And I think the best part of this is you can take a student's data, and again, this
03:48is something we may bring out at some point.
03:50We have our own AI server in the district, so we don't have to worry about FERPA laws.
03:53Okay, so we could take the student's assessment scores, and we can match those to state assessments,
03:59and then we can use the power of these AIs to actually script an individual plan for
04:04that kid with a path to proficiency.
04:07So I think that's the exciting part about this.
04:09And literally that is done in 20 or 30 seconds.
04:12We upload a couple of PDFs.
04:14We tell it what we want it to do.
04:15I've already pre-trained this in the background to do what I want it to do, and in the end,
04:20it gives that kid a short-term, medium-term, and long-term plans that are developed around
04:25that individual child as opposed to just the entire classroom.
04:29So again, that's one of the things that excites me the most about this.
04:31And that could probably be even flipped on to like higher ed if you go to the university
04:35or whatever because it's so individualized for that particular student.
04:38It could be a growing tool that that child grows into adulthood with that, correct?
04:44Yes, sir, 100%.
04:46I don't think this stops at K-12.
04:47Honestly, I don't think this stops at college.
04:50I think we're going to see this moving into the business world.
04:53Knowledge is going to be something for everybody now, and I think that's what's changing in
04:56the world of AI.
04:57You know, we used to pay, we pay doctors lots of money, right?
05:00But now everybody's going to have access to this specialized training that they've had
05:04for years.
05:05So again, I think, I don't think it stops in K-12 and college.
05:08I think that rolls right into adulthood as well.
05:10How exciting.
05:12I yield my time back, Chair.
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