@ProgressiveLurker I personally don't believe teaching all kids "AI" (which I take to be a marketing term that is not attached to a coherent definition or technology) will be of obvious benefit to individual and/or society. It would likely benefit specific private companies more.

As a person who learnt to code at the age of 8 in 1982 I'm fond of teaching coding – but I would not necessarily argue this is imperative for societal wellbeing in the sense that it should be compulsory for primary school. It can help in recognising grift though.

Alan Blackwell does, to be fair, make a strong case for coding literacy:

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5814/Moral-CodesDesigning-Alternatives-to-AI