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Student Senators Begin Crafting National AI Policy During America’s Youth AI Festival

AASA, The School Superintendents Association · · International · AI Governance

Student senators participating in America's Youth AI Festival, organized in connection with AASA, The School Superintendents Association, took part in drafting national AI policy proposals. The initiative gives students a structured role in shaping how AI governance conversations develop at a national level.

Why this matters: Getting young people into policy rooms early is genuinely useful. They will live with AI rules longer than anyone writing them today. But the design matters. Student input that feeds real deliberation is different from student input that gets photographed and shelved. The honest thing to watch here is whether these proposals go anywhere, or whether this is civic theater dressed up as governance.

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