The government defined AI literacy. Did you notice?

Quick one for the educators here.

Somewhere in the last few months the federal government settled on an official definition of AI literacy, and it is already flowing into state bills across more than two dozen statehouses. Most of us never saw it happen.

The definition lands on three things: understand how AI works, evaluate outputs critically, use tools ethically. Reasonable on paper. But it was built on a workforce readiness frame, which optimizes for output. The thing that actually protects a student is not output, it is judgment. The ability to look at a fluent, confident, wrong answer and know it is wrong.

So I am curious about your reality: when a student hands in something polished but hollow, where do you think the gap actually is? Skills, or judgment? And what is one move you have made that built the judgment side?

I wrote up the full breakdown and a one question fix you can add to a lesson this week here: https://www.harvestkernel.com/ai-literacy-definition-what-it-means-for-educators/