After signing the White House's Pledge for American Youth: Investing in AI Education in August, we joined businesses across the country at the White House's AI Education Task Force event, deepening our commitment to helping American students build key skills to excel and lead in AI.
Humanity has made three concrete commitments to expand access to AI education across the country.
$1 million investment in K-12 cybersecurity education:
Humanity has invested $1 million over three years to fund PICOCTF, Carnegie Mellon University's hands-on cybersecurity education program for middle and high school students. PicoCTF teaches important problem-solving skills through interactive challenges and focuses on reaching students in unserved communities that can open doors to new career paths. This investment will help more students develop cybersecurity and critical thinking skills that are essential for the age of AI.
Support for the President's AI Challenge:
Students and educators signed up to take part in the White House's newly launched Presidential AI Challenge. It brings together students, educators, mentors and community teams to solve community problems using AI-powered solutions. Students and educators looking to take part in the President's AI Challenge can get started by clicking here.
A comprehensive AI-style ency curriculum for educators:
Humanity is also developing and launching an AI-style ency curriculum for instructors teaching K-12 and higher education. Based on existing courses, this comprehensive curriculum will help educators think about integrating AI into classrooms nationwide. Significantly, this curriculum is licensed by Creative Commons. It is freely available for anyone to use, modify, and share, and is designed to work with AI systems, ensuring fair access regardless of school resources.
All of these commitments are based on the efforts we have already made to ensure that students and educators across the country benefit from using AI.
The impact of AI on learning nationwide
Through partnerships with leading education platforms, we see how AI can help transform learning for millions of students and educators across the United States.
- Using Claude, Magicschool, the K-12 education platform, serves 3 million educators across all US school districts with over 100 million AI engagements, making it the fastest growing educational technology platform to date.
- Amira Learning, an AI reading technology platform for K-12 students, uses Claude to help millions of students develop reading comprehension and background knowledge through personalized conversational learning experiences.
- solvely.ai is an academic peer who powered AI-powered support for students of all ages in writing, mathematics and more, and uses Claude to support over 5 million students in over 120 countries.
Beyond helping students learn with AI, we help them build with it. Claude for Education serves more than 100,000 students and faculty, including USF Law's first fully integrated curriculum and adoptions on 13 campuses at Northeastern. Additionally, the Claude Builder Club will launch this fall at over 60 U.S. universities, allowing students to launch and build tools to solve community problems.
Research-led, educator-led development
The way AI enters the classroom will form a relationship with student technology and learning for years to come. This is why we base our education initiatives on actual evidence. Recently, we analyzed the conversations of over 1 million university students and 74,000 educators to understand how AI is actually used in classrooms. Our research shows that university students primarily use AI to use complex tasks such as creation and analysis (70% of usage), while educators use the most for curriculum development (57%), and use custom classroom tools using Claude Artifacts, from interactive simulation to grading Rubik.
These findings form the product directly. We designed learning modes in Claude to highlight student critical thinking and developed an AI Fluency curriculum that is consistent with how educators actually integrate these tools into education. Studying usage patterns enhancing teaching tools rather than compromising learning.
I'm looking forward to it
Participation in today's White House AI Education Task Force Conference demonstrates our commitment to working with government and industry partners to ensure that American students and educators are prepared for an AI-powered future. Through initiatives like the White House Pledge for American Youth: Investing in AI Education, we will continue to invest in America's next generation leaders, innovators and problem-solvers. Find out more about educational work at anthropic.com/education.
