AI Security Literacy: Ecosystem-based Competency Framework and K-12 Learning Platform

arXiv:2610.28859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adoption of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools has outpaced guidance for students, teachers, and administrators. Existing AI-literacy frameworks emphasize understanding and use; cybersecurity frameworks predate AI-specific threats, and neither defines AI security literacy as a competency domain in its own right. We propose an AI Security Literacy (AISL) framework of six dimensions spanning the school ecosystem, ground its technical dimensions in public AI-safety benchmarks and a reproducible multi-seed adversarial evaluation, and ground its attitudinal dimensions in nationally representative survey micro-data from U.S. teachers and adults. Only 34.5% of teachers report a school AI policy, and teachers see their own AI use as easing their work but students' use as complicating it; on the technical side, a reported robustness figure depends as much on the attack and the particular trained model as on the system evaluated. NeuralFortify, a browser-based K-12 platform built on real AI models, is presented as an illustrative operationalization.

Proposed framework highlights lack of AI security literacy in K-12 schools, emphasizing potential risks.

The item highlights a significant gap in AI security literacy in K-12 schools, which poses a risk for misuse and vulnerability to AI threats. However, it also introduces a structured framework and a practical educational platform (NeuralFortify) that can enhance understanding and secure AI adoption, thus offering valuable opportunities. The evidence is based on preprint research with concrete data and a prototype platform.

This is an academic proposal addressing a real governance gap (low school AI policy adoption) rather than a claim about AI's broader societal trajectory. The survey data is concrete but the implications are modest and institutional, not civilizational.

The paper identifies a gap in guidance for AI adoption in K-12 schools, proposing a framework and platform to address AI security literacy. While this addresses a potential problem, the immediate implications for human flourishing are neutral, as it proposes a solution rather than describing a significant positive or negative impact already occurring.

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MODEL RUN  4 runs, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -6  (Mixed or uncertain)
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CONFIDENCE 56%