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Stephanie Hughes

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Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

And I understand this is one of thousands of lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts, state attorneys against social media companies.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

How likely do you think we are to see actual changes to the products these companies make?

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

This has been called social media's big tobacco moment.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

What are you going to be watching for moving forward?

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Yeah, we'll watch it.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Okay, so let's move to our next story.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

The U.S.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Department of Labor announces an AI literacy course.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

So this week, the Trump administration introduced a free course that it says is meant to make American workers, quote, AI ready.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

The course is designed to be completed entirely over text message and is meant to be the starting point for people to learn about AI.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Maria, you've been reporting on this.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Tell me more about this initiative.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Yeah, I actually enrolled in the course both to see what it was like and to, you know, I would certainly like to be more AI ready.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

And the first lesson was, it was really straightforward.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

There were emoji and GIFs.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

It explained what generative AI is.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

I will say it did seem very pro-AI and meant to make the technology not scary.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

What do you think the overall intent is with this?

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

Yeah, you know, a lot of people I know are very nervous about AI taking their jobs, either rightfully or wrongfully.

Marketplace All-in-One
Bytes: Week in Review — Meta, YouTube’s social media addiction case, a new AI literacy course, and Kalshi’s prediction market self-regulation

What could a course like this do, if anything, to prevent that?