ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
White House
Executive Briefing Center
THE WHITE HOUSE SI GENERATIONAL INITIATIVE: DRIVER'S EDUCATION FOR SUPER INTELLIGENCE
Train every student first. Everything after is amplified.
America's next AI breakthrough is not just more powerful technology. It is training the humans who will command it.
The AI Institute has developed and field-tested MACH 5, a behavioral training system that prepares students and educators to think independently, question, verify, and command increasingly powerful AI and Super Intelligence tools. Proven across two school years and more than 20 school sites, it is ready for national deployment.
The Institute respectfully invites the White House, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. Department of Education to review this initiative.
A NATIONAL TRAINING MISSION. ABOUT THE COST OF A PENCIL.
The 74-Cent Moonshot is a proposed ten-year national initiative to bring foundational AI readiness training to every K-12 student in America at no cost to school districts: about 74 cents per student across the decade, roughly the cost of a pencil. Its purpose is a common baseline of human readiness as the nation advances toward increasingly powerful AI and Super Intelligence. With national backing, deployment can begin within six months.
Proof in the Classroom:
How MACH 5 Changes the Way Students Use AI
Thank you for taking a few moments to review this briefing. Over two school years, Russell Knight, PhD, and our team developed, refined, and delivered MACH 5 across more than 20 school sites, through district engagement, classroom implementation, and measured results. We would welcome the opportunity to provide a private briefing and demonstration.
National AI Opportunity
President Trump has made AI education a national priority. His April 2025 Executive Order directs federal agencies, including the Department of Education, to expand AI literacy in K-12 schools and identify funding mechanisms to support it.
The AI Institute has answered that directive with a field-tested training system.
We call it Driver's Education for Super Intelligence: MACH 5, a five-hour, five-lesson behavioral training program, designed to advance that national goal through a public-private partnership.
This is not a proposal in development. It is an operating program, refined across more than 20 school sites over two years through paid district deployment, ready for national deployment.
The Department of Education has issued guidance that existing federal education grant funds may support responsible AI integration.
FIVE HOURS. FIVE LESSONS.
FIVE BEHAVIORS.
THINK → FRAME → QUESTION → VERIFY → COMMAND
MACH 5 is the Institute's structured behavioral training pathway. It turns unstructured AI use into disciplined human-AI interaction, building repeatable habits of independent thought, critical questioning, verification, and human command. Think Top Gun for the AI age: precision training for learning to command advanced intelligence.
Think First. AI Helps Second.
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP BEHIND THE INITIATIVE
Scientific authority, national execution, and education leadership, aligned around an implementation-ready behavioral framework for responsible AI use.
Russell Knight, PhD.
President, Artificial Intelligence Institute
26+ years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Russell Knight is a pioneer in mission-critical artificial intelligence, the kind that cannot afford to be wrong. For more than twenty-six years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he built autonomous AI systems for environments where failure is not an option, including deep-space navigation across a 302-million-mile journey. His work is documented in peer-reviewed publications and patents and has been recognized with NASA awards. No one else has taken that discipline, verification, disciplined reasoning, human accountability under real stakes, and translated it into how a nine-year-old learns to think alongside AI. That is the gap nobody else has closed. Dr. Knight closed it.
Dr. Knight is available to brief designated federal leadership directly on the framework, the implementation experience, and the observed classroom results.
Richard Awni
Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence Institute · Founder & Chairman, Family First Foundation
Richard Awni spent twenty-six years earning trust in Los Angeles communities the slow ways, one family, one school, one relationship at a time, without salary, because he believed it was the right thing to do. That work put him in the room when students first started showing up dependent on AI in ways no curriculum had prepared them for. He didn't set out to build a national movement. He found a national problem and recognized it was bigger than any one organization could carry alone. That recognition, and the trust it took twenty-five years to earn, is what makes this initiative real instead of theoretical.
National Strategy & Partnerships
Brian Taylor, PhD
Vice President, Strategic Alliances & National Development, Artificial Intelligence Institute
Brian Taylor has spent decades building the systems that get big ideas into real institutions, as a founding board member of one of the country's most closely watched charter school networks, as Harvard-Westlake's first Director of Diversity, and as founder of both the Brian Taylor Leadership Institute and Princeton's Summer of a Lifetime program. He was the leading scorer for the U.S. team at the 1971 Pan-American Games, a Princeton graduate who has spent the years since building institutions, not resting on the ones he helped start. He brings the one thing a national initiative like this cannot succeed without: the ability to turn belief into a coalition.
Strategic Alliances & Education Leadership
Lea Ubas
Teacher, President of Advisory Board, Artificial Intelligence Institute · President, Family First Foundation · Commissioner, City of Glendale
Lea started as a teacher, then built her governance career one board at a time, PTA unit president, then VP, now Executive Vice President of the Glendale Council PTA, overseeing 24 individual school boards from Pomona to Glendale, including their budgets, their finances, and how each one runs its programs. As a City of Glendale Commissioner, she sits on the Community Development Block Grant Commission, directly overseeing roughly $3.4 million in federal funds every year. That's not advisory input from the sidelines, it's hands-on fiduciary oversight of a real federal budget, the same standard of accountability this initiative would bring to national-scale deployment.
Governance & Financial Oversight
WHITE HOUSE EXECUTIVE BRIEFING CENTER
NATIONAL K–12 AI READINESS INITIATIVE
Ready for immediate deployment
Cognitive Offloading to Cognitive Amplification.
Every student. Every classroom. Every state. Every profession.
An implementation-ready Ethical AI framework, developed and deployed across two years of real classrooms, built to strengthen human reasoning, verification, creativity, and ethical responsibility, not replace them.
The Institute welcomes the opportunity to brief the White House, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the U.S. Department of Education on this initiative.
“I used to ask AI for the answer and copy it. Now I know how to use it the right way. I am in charge of and responsible for how I use AI.”
Paloma, student
THE PROOF
78% of students were already using AI before the Institute arrived. Only 13.6% had received any structured guidance on how.
After completing the program: right-way AI use rose from 15.8% to 88%. Safe use rose from 14% to 90%. Verifying AI output before use rose from 14% to 89%. Attendance increased 10% after the second session, on a voluntary basis.
Developed and delivered over two school years across more than 20 school sites, MACH 5 has produced documented, first-party results. Students move beyond asking for answers toward questioning, verification, original thinking, and responsible human-AI collaboration.
It also works beyond K-12: a struggling third-year aerospace engineering student used Professor Atlas and the program and reached 95% and 93% in his toughest classes, and it turned his fourth semester around.
See the behavior change in action:
— back for a second year, and using AI the responsible way from day one this time.
Ace-Jacob, returning student
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Alice Petrossian, administrator & teacher
— came to evaluate the program for the district. Stayed for every session. “I came to evaluate the program for the children. I stayed to learn. Do you have a version for adults?”
HELP DEFINE THE HUMAN READINESS LAYER FOR AMERICA'S SUPER INTELLIGENCE FUTURE.
We welcome a 20-minute executive briefing to share our classroom evidence, the proposed national deployment pathway, and how foundational human training can complement federal AI and Super Intelligence initiatives.
Under the existing contact line, add: Call or text (818) 726-7207. Or email Russell Knight, PhD, at knight@familyfirstamerica.org, or Brian Taylor, PhD, at briant@familyfirstamerica.org.