Adapted from the Center for Research Initiatives (CRI), Dhaka, Bangladesh — AI Literacy Newsletter, September 2025
AI literacy isn’t just another skill—it’s a public good. The CRI newsletter defines it as a blend of technical, social, and ethical understanding that allows people to ‘evaluate, communicate, and collaborate effectively with AI.’ The point isn’t mastery, but awareness: knowing where AI fits in daily work, and where it shouldn’t.
Governments, universities, and employers are all experimenting with ways to teach it—seminars, online modules, peer learning—but most still struggle to measure results. Nearly half of surveyed workplaces offer no AI training at all. The CRI team notes that the most effective models so far are informal and practical: learning while doing, sharing insight peer-to-peer, blending online foundations with local workshops.
For PSA readers, this view echoes what we see in communities here—learning that grows from participation, not prescription. Embedding AI literacy into daily practice may be less about technology adoption and more about cultivating civic trust and responsible curiosity.
Reference: Neaz Mujeri, AI Literacy September 2025 Newsletter, Center for Research Initiatives (CRI), Dhaka.
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Good catch Kris…with so much happening in the AI world, every day or two another announcment of some new product or other advancement, it’s easy to forget this is.a world wide phenomenon.
For example. OpenAI has a world wide reach with very large numbers of subscribers outside of the US, but we rarely hear about what those subscribers are doing, or how various institutions and governments are acting to distribute AI to their populations.
It seems likely that some of that “outside the US” AI activity will create new opportunities and approaches that we need to know about, such as in the article you cite.