Dinowitz and De La Rosa on AI playbook timeline and shifting plans
Dinowitz asks about the AI playbook planned for June 2026 per DOE's guidance. Junta explains the original plan has shifted due to feedback and the evolving national conversation, saying DOE is not racing into a playbook but carefully building out stronger guidance. Dr. Pate adds the delay is about being responsive to feedback.
The AI guidance states that on page six that a playbook is planned for June 2026.
What is that playbook and is it currently available?
Thank you.
As part of our original
plan.
We were releasing the guidance going through 45-day feedback, and it would result in the next step of a playbook.
That is how we started this process.
Given feedback, given some additional educational and professional reviews, and given the shifting national conversation, which has really
escalated over just the last couple of weeks alone, we are not necessarily committed to
making sure that playbook comes out in June because what we are committed to and was part of our testimony is going back to what that like baseline guidance is and flushing that out to be more responsive to the feedback,
to take in some of the shifts in national conversation and research that's coming out.
And so right now, the playbook as it was originally sort of part of the original plan is shifting.
I could, you know, invite Dr.
Pate if you want to add to that, or if that's just the answer, we can move on.
FTC, I think you did a wonderful job at responding to that.
What I would add is that this is not about a rush to get a playbook out for the sake of playbook.
What we are committed to is galvanizing the voices of community, which FTC talked about, connected to the 6,500 plus feedback that we received.
And some of that feedback really shared with us a bit of a slowdown.
In order to really be thoughtful and strategic about what it looks like to ensure privacy, safety, and to ensure that what is instructionally sound for students
is incorporated into what our playbook would be.
So the delay is not about getting the job done.
It really is about being responsive to what the feedback has told us.
over this past 45 days and to just acknowledge that this is really an iterative process that you can expect lots of loops, lots of changes, lots of shifts as we become better informed,
as research continues to evolve, and as we have these hearings, which also give us some really good insight about the direction that we need to go from some of your constituents as well.
Great.
I'm going to ask two more questions and then I'll pass it back so we can open.
But I wanted to ask, I do have more questions for later.
I want to give other people a chance.