John Coleman of FIRE breaks down the National AI Safety and Privacy Standard recently announced by the American Federation of Teachers, the United Federation of Teachers, and Microsoft. The agreement is voluntary, but the AFT is encouraging school districts to adopt it for educational AI tools.

In this episode of The Fine Print with Julie Barrett, Coleman walks through what the standard actually covers and what it leaves open: who owns student prompts and outputs, limits on using student data to train models, the safety exception for self-harm and other risks, the difference between informational and agentic AI, human-in-the-loop requirements for grading and discipline, and the equity and accessibility research the agreement requires. He also talks about the free-speech and parent-privacy questions that come up when districts start using these tools.

Coleman is with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He works on AI policy and the First Amendment, and he looks at this agreement both as a free-speech advocate and as a parent.

The Fine Print is part of Protecting Kids Online. A previous conversation with Coleman on age verification and AI is linked in the description.

Find John Coleman at fire.org and on X at @freespeech_ai

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