AI Institute to Brief the White House: Driver’s Education for Super Intelligence Is the Missing Layer in President Trump’s AI Vision
Invited to give the White House a full in-person briefing on what is happening inside America’s classrooms, the AI Institute says the missing layer is driver’s education for Super Intelligence, and no school, whatever its budget, should be left without it.
Official White House gallery: President Trump hosts a Super Intelligence luncheon, Sept. 29, 2026.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2026 — The Artificial Intelligence Institute will give the White House a full, in-person briefing on October 15 on what is actually happening inside America’s classrooms as students meet increasingly powerful AI, and on what the Institute believes is the missing layer in President Donald Trump’s vision of AI education for every K-12 student: driver’s education for Super Intelligence.
President Trump’s April 2025 executive order created the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education and set a bold national goal: AI literacy, critical thinking and educator training for American schools, backed by public-private partnerships and federal funding mechanisms.
The Institute strongly supports that vision. Its message to Washington is that the next step is readiness: driver’s education for Super Intelligence.
That means teaching students to think first, verify and stay in command of the systems they now use. The invitation is not an endorsement, and the Institute does not claim one. It is an opportunity to bring field evidence into the national conversation.
That evidence comes from inside the classroom. For two years the Institute has worked with students in grades four through eight in Los Angeles-area school districts. Before any instruction, 78 percent of those students were already using AI, and only 13.6 percent had received any guidance. After a roughly five-hour program, students using AI the right way rose from 15.8% to 88%, students verifying what AI tells them rose from 14% to 89%, and students who knew how to use it safely rose from 14% to 90%. The data is first-party, and the Institute welcomes independent evaluation.
The National Science Foundation has asked to meet about the data. By the Foundation’s own indication, few if any scientists of Russell Knight’s standing are working directly inside fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms on how students use AI. The Institute is working toward independent study with academic partners, a process that moves at the pace of federal research.
The Institute’s mission is simple: no school, however constrained its budget, should be denied the same access to this program that the Institute wants every school in the country to have. That is why it is going to the White House.
School districts operate under real budget pressure, and adoption stalls when the funding route is unclear. The executive order already contemplates federal funding mechanisms, grant guidance and public-private partnerships. The next step is making those routes easy enough for any district to use, without removing local control.
President Trump’s September 29 executive order moved the federal government into the language of Super Intelligence. The Institute’s position is that Super Intelligence needs Human Readiness: the machines are becoming more powerful, and the people using them must become more capable too. The Institute’s program, MACH 5, was built for exactly this moment: five hours, five lessons, five behaviors, one goal, keep the human in command. MACH 5 is driver’s education for Artificial Intelligence, and in the era of Super Intelligence it is driver’s education for Super Intelligence.
Richard Awni; Russell Knight, PhD, a senior AI technologist with more than 26 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Brian Taylor, PhD, a Princeton graduate, former NBA player and education institution-builder, will represent the Institute.
America should not allow a student’s ZIP code, or a school district’s discretionary budget, to determine whether that student learns how to use advanced intelligence responsibly. _______________________________________________________________________
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