MPS students take part in AI workshop

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Artificial intelligence is developing more and more each day. Educators are now focusing on making sure Milwaukee youth have the skills to use the tool responsibly. 

Tuesday morning, more than 100 Milwaukee Public Schools students spent hours in an interactive AI workshop at North Division High School. 

The students, aged 10-13, were members of Camp RISE -- an Employ Milwaukee youth program sponsored by Kohl's -- that aims to "provide Milwaukee youth with the tools to become better leaders in their community."

There, they worked on creating photos, music, and writing stories, with an overall goal of emphasizing how human creativity and AI can go hand in hand. 

Leaders say because AI isn't going away, the sooner young people can learn how to work with the tool, the more effective it will be.

"So, it's not all about efficiency and productivity, it's about leveraging AI to make us better humans," said Todd McLees, founder of HumanSkills.AI. "We have to become better at being human, because machines are getting much better at being machines."

Coming up on our continued Eye on AI series, we'll hear from some of the students at this workshop on what they believe the future of AI will look like.