Digital Promise
Digital Promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale innovations that support learners, especially those who’ve been historically and systematically excluded.www.digitalpromise.org
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Sep 11, 2026
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
There's a lot of discussion actually happening.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Salesforce Foundation is actually funding us here at Digital Promise with TNTP and looking at the role of AI in the future of work.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
And they're not the only ones.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
There are many others, including the Gates Foundation, who are doing this.
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Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Once you turn off the AI, is it the same product that you have? Well, those of us in research, how do you know it's still efficacious? And what gives me heartburn are things like this.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Watching New Mexico, right? They're looking to remove a mirror learning.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
It's an AI-driven science of reading platform, very much of a massive study we're doing at Digital Promise, looking at gen AI in the science of reading for multilingual learners, early readers, et cetera.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
And we know we're going to make a huge difference for the sector, right? So now you have to opt out against, like, recording and privacy issues.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
There's a lot of discussion actually happening.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Salesforce Foundation is actually funding us here at Digital Promise with TNTP and looking at the role of AI in the future of work.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
And they're not the only ones.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
There are many others, including the Gates Foundation, who are doing this.
13 MINS LATER
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Once you turn off the AI, is it the same product that you have? Well, those of us in research, how do you know it's still efficacious? And what gives me heartburn are things like this.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
Watching New Mexico, right? They're looking to remove a mirror learning.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
It's an AI-driven science of reading platform, very much of a massive study we're doing at Digital Promise, looking at gen AI in the science of reading for multilingual learners, early readers, et cetera.
Jean-Claude BrizardGUEST
And we know we're going to make a huge difference for the sector, right? So now you have to opt out against, like, recording and privacy issues.
Tom LlamasHOST
JOINING US NOW WITH HIS THOUGHTS IS JEAN-CLAUDE BRAZARD.
Tom LlamasHOST
HE WAS THE CEO OF THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM 2011 TO 2012 AND IS THE CEO OF DIGITAL PROMISE, A NONPROFIT THAT ENCOURAGES INNOVATION AND EDUCATION, WHICH OBVIOUSLY MEANS THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Tom LlamasHOST
JEAN, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
Tom LlamasHOST
YOU LED THE THIRD LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE COUNTRY.
LauraHOST
Fair, and the counter-argument arrived almost immediately.
LauraHOST
Jean-Claude Brassard, who runs the non-profit Digital Promise, warned that poor children in New York City will be the ones who suffer without sensible leveraging of this technology.
ChrisHOST
That is the equity argument, and it is not a trivial one at all.
ChrisHOST
Wealthy families will simply buy their children access at home, so a school ban does not produce equal exposure, it produces unequal exposure.