Government

The rules that will decide how AI shows up in classrooms are being written right now, in statehouses and school boards across the country. Most of that work is happening without the students it will affect, and that absence is the thing we care about most.

Where we stand

Most of the policy being written either tries to shut AI out of the classroom or lets it in without asking what it does to how a student learns. Those decisions get made for students with almost no input from them, and they skip past the question that matters most: when does AI genuinely help a student learn, and when does it quietly do the learning for them?

Our own position takes more than a sentence, but the core of it is straightforward. AI belongs in education when it helps a student think, and it should be kept away from the work where it would end up thinking for them. Transparency is what holds that line. When you can see how a student worked and where AI came into the process, learning stays out in the open and good policy has something real to stand on. We want that idea written into the rules, the same way we already try to build it into what we make.

What we're doing about it

I want to be straight about where this stands today. Deskpad Policy has not testified on a bill or written a line of law yet, and I would rather say that plainly. What we have right now is a clear position and the early work behind it. We are looking for the rooms where these decisions get made, so we can bring students into them.