Four current challenges impede AI literacy implementation: inconsistent policies, uneven knowledge, resistance, and cost barriers¶

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q1 i? The briefs identify inconsistent policies, uneven knowledge and comfort levels, resistance due to bias and critical-thinking concerns, and cost barriers as current challenges to implementing AI literacy. → Ruiz 2025

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Ruiz 2025¶

Ruiz, P., Liberman, B., Karim, S., Dallas, D., Zachariah, I., Peters Hinton, V., Chillmon, C., & Gonzales, L. (2025). Implementing AI literacy across learning environments: A series of briefs. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/268

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This is the briefs' own enumerated challenge list, presented as expert synthesis rather than a tested result. The first listed challenge is inconsistent policies that "create confusion about safe and acceptable uses of AI across classrooms, schools, districts, and workplaces"; the list also names uneven knowledge, resistance, and cost barriers.

"Inconsistent policies and guidelines that create confusion about safe and acceptable uses of AI across classrooms, schools, districts, and workplaces"

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