New Brunswick Puts AI in the K-12 Curriculum, and Some Parents Want a Pause

New Brunswick is incorporating learning about AI into its anglophone K-12 curriculum, part of wider calls to teach young Canadians how to use the technology responsibly for school. CBC reports that some are calling for a pause and pushing back, particularly where the youngest learners are concerned.

The split is a concrete version of a broader fight: teaching AI literacy as a subject is one thing, and the objection CBC describes is about the age at which that starts.