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About AIYA
We are a student-led movement dedicated to empowering students and schools to meet the generational challenge of AI.
What We Believe
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We believe AI represents a generational challenge for today's students.
On the one hand, AI is an incredibly powerful tool that provides an unprecedented opportunity to amplify our ability to solve problems, answer questions, and leverage the entire digital record of human knowledge
At the same time, without the application of a critical framework, AI threatens to harm our cognitive and academic development and well-being. A recent MIT study has shown how uncritical reliance on AI to offload essential academic engagement and cognitive effort can lead to a measurable atrophy in the critical thinking, analytical capacity, and genuine authorship that are integral to subject mastery and learning.
Our Vision
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To prepare students for success through direct engagement with AI within the structured learning environment of their schools.
We believe the only way to equip students for AI success and inoculate them against the dangers of AI misuse is to provide them with direct, hands-on opportunities to experience the power and pitfalls of AI first-hand through guided experiential programming within the safe, structured learning environment provided by their schools.
Students need hands-on opportunities in their schools to learn to use AI effectively and safely. Without these opportunities, students risk falling behind peers who have attained technical fluency and are in danger of becoming dependent on AI as a substitute for critical thinking and essential cognitive effort.
Our Mission
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To equip students with foundational AI literacy and fluency in essential AI skills and techniques through experiential programming while advancing conversations around best-practices at and between schools around the world.
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AIYA Literacy provides a structured program of AI challenges & problem sets that allow students to realize AI’s vast potential and surprising limitations through direct, hands-on experiences.
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AIYA Global Hackathon presents participants with the opportunity to compete and collaborate with students around the world in a first-of-its-kind international hackathon dedicated to building apps and models using AI.
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AIYA Impact is an opportunity for students to showcase creative, research, and impact projects that use AI or center AI as their subject.