Calls to teach 'AI literacy' should be laughable at K-12. For starters, it's only five years old, so . . . no one knows much about it, and you know less than that. So, what're you doing? Providing free advertising and eventually job training for infotech companies on the public dime?

Secondly, what are you going to teach? That LLMs lie to you sometimes? That's a Post-It note. Is there a 'lesson'-level idea there? The only sure-fire way I know of to protect yourself from lies is to know stuff. Your course is AI literacy.

Issues like this always go back to purpose, for me—a set of shared purposes for education, if we can find them. If you believe that K-12 education is essentially just job training and is accountable mostly for keeping kids 'up to date' with what's going on in the economy—then 'AI literacy' doesn't seem like a bad idea. When you don't share that purpose for education, you see all the problems with it.