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Dear Friends,
A school superintendent I worked with last year sat across from me at a kitchen table and asked a question she had been carrying for months.
“My teachers are using AI. My students are using AI. The plagiarism vendor wants a contract. The school board wants a policy. The parents want answers. And I do not know what good looks like. How do I tell if we are ready?”
I have heard that question, in different costumes, from a state CIO, a hospital chief of staff, a community organizer, a board chair, a founder, and a parent in a Costco parking lot.
The question sounds like it is about AI. It is not. It is about a chain that runs underneath AI, in a direction most current conversations do not name.
AI Readiness depends on AI Adoption. Adoption depends on Awareness. Awareness depends on Literacy. Literacy is the foundation, and most organizations skip straight past it.
The next letter arrives Tuesday, and from there every other Tuesday at nine in the morning Central time.
Suneeta Modekurty
Founder, SANJEEVANI AI