WH in-town pool report #2 - Amazon VP gaggle

Kim Jajerus, the VP of global education at Amazon, gaggled with reporters at the sticks.

On helping educators use AI: "When we think about the opportunity that they have is to manage students throughout the course of the day. It's a heavy load for an educator. So what we like to think about is, what are we doing to help support them before? What are we helping them do during class? And how are we helping those students after?"

On AI and the workforce: "I think AI is being integrated into everything that we do. And we think about the workforce again, think about how we're all using it today, when I think about how Amazon is enabling, not only the workforce of today, but the workforce of the future, is making sure they understand how to use those tools, ensuring academic integrity, which is so important in leveraging AI. But at the end of the day, this is about creating the workforce of the future, and when you have the tools of AI, it allows you to think and innovate and think bigger."

Is AI a useful tool for students or a distraction: "There's appropriate times and places, and we depend on the local, state and the counties to make those determinations on how and where they're going to use the technology to the best of what that community needs."

Here is a link to the otter of her Q&A: https://otter.ai/u/f0RuPfiiesRYqQn0Pk6dfOQLs1Q?utm_source=copy_url

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Emily Goodin

White House Correspondent

McClatchy DC/Miami Herald

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