{"id":228900,"date":"2026-03-29T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/the-genies-out-of-the-bottle-little-signs-ai-education-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:55:08","slug":"the-genies-out-of-the-bottle-little-signs-ai-education-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/the-genies-out-of-the-bottle-little-signs-ai-education-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The genie’s out of the bottle’: Little signs AI education bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The genie’s out of the bottle’: Little signs AI education bill<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-29 12:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) \u2014 Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill instructing the Idaho Department of Education to develop a statewide framework for integrating generative artificial intelligence into classrooms.<\/p>\n

The framework will serve teachers just as much, if not more, than students, said State Superintendent Debbie Critchfield.<\/p>\n

Critchfield once asked a classroom of fourth graders if they use AI every day. All of them raised their hands, she told reporters after the bill signing ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe surprised group in the room were the adults,\u201d Critchfield said. The framework the Idaho Department of Education develops, she said, should \u201cforce adults to catch up with kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Little signed Senate Bill 1227, the state had no guidelines for AI use in schools. The law is open-ended so it can adapt over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t tie down the bill,\u201d said Sen. Kevin Cook, R-Idaho Falls. Cook, a software engineer, sponsored the bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Local legislator proposing bill that creates framework for education about future of AI<\/strong><\/p>\n

The law requires the framework to be \u201chuman-centered,\u201d transparent and safe.<\/p>\n

By \u201cgenerative AI,\u201d the bill means chiefly text, image and video generation, according to the bill\u2019s own definition.<\/p>\n

It excludes AI models that \u201chave the primary goal of classifying data, such as those in automated vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can make the argument that the AI genie is out of the bottle,\u201d Little said. \u201cNobody\u2019s putting that genie back in the bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Little referred to Moore\u2019s Law, an observation made by former Intel leader Gordon Moore in 1965, which essentially proposed that semiconductors, the computer component that enables AI to \u201cthink,\u201d would shrink to half their size every two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody thought it wasn\u2019t going to happen,\u201d Little said of Moore\u2019s Law, \u201cand it just continued to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Thursday, March 26, 2026.<\/p>\n

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