Submission + - OpenAI, National Security Council Staffers Met Twice at White House in January
Thursday's meeting on Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence Innovation marked a return to the White House for Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who were summoned to the WH in 2021 for President Biden's s Presidential Summit on Cybersecurity in the wake of high-profile cyberattacks. Also in attendance at that meeting was Hadi Partovi, CEO of the Microsoft and Google-backed nonprofit Code.org, which committed to helping out by using its K-12 CS curriculum to teach Cybersecurity concepts to schoolkids. On Tuesday, Code.org coincidentally announced the formation of TeachAI, a partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft, and others that's committed to helping governments and educators teach with and about AI. Laying out its goals, TeachAI says it "will produce guidelines for policymakers, administrators, educators, and companies in best practices for safely using AI in [K-12] education," and argues that "revisions to the [tech-influenced] K-12 CS Framework [used by a number of schools] are necessary to reflect that [K-12] CS instruction must teach about AI and teach using AI." Back in 2020, Microsoft gave Code.org $7.5 million to create "a comprehensive and age-appropriate approach to teaching how AI works along with the social and ethical considerations, from elementary school through high school." Code.org's Board of Directors include Microsoft President Brad Smith and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott.