Stephanie Hughes
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And I understand this is one of thousands of lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts, state attorneys against social media companies.
How likely do you think we are to see actual changes to the products these companies make?
This has been called social media's big tobacco moment.
What are you going to be watching for moving forward?
Yeah, we'll watch it.
Okay, so let's move to our next story.
The U.S.
Department of Labor announces an AI literacy course.
So this week, the Trump administration introduced a free course that it says is meant to make American workers, quote, AI ready.
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.
Maria, you've been reporting on this.
Tell me more about this initiative.
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.
And the first lesson was, it was really straightforward.
There were emoji and GIFs.
It explained what generative AI is.
I will say it did seem very pro-AI and meant to make the technology not scary.
What do you think the overall intent is with this?
Yeah, you know, a lot of people I know are very nervous about AI taking their jobs, either rightfully or wrongfully.
What could a course like this do, if anything, to prevent that?