Day of AI brings to life MIT RAISE’s mission: to empower everyone – students, educators, and communities – to understand, use, and shape artificial intelligence in meaningful, equitable ways. Through free, open-access curricula, teacher professional development, and globally scaled outreach, we are equipping K-12 learners around the world to engage with AI not just as users, but as thoughtful creators and citizens. With the pace of AI transformation accelerating, MIT RAISE believes that literacy in this domain is fundamental to navigating our future and ensuring AI serves the public good.
Developments in 2025
This was a year of rapid growth, both in the U.S. and beyond, greatly expanding the reach of Day of AI and RAISE’s mission. Educators in all 50 states and 175 countries now use Day of AI curricula, breaking a milestone of reaching more than 2 million students.
International Impact
2025 was a year of rapid growth far beyond our own backyard. From high-profile presence at conferences like Future_Ready in Latvia to major curricular rollouts in Asia, Africa, and South America, RAISE and Day of AI’s work has spread around the globe.
U.S. Impact and the Day of AI Celebration in Boston
On June 5, MIT RAISE, in collaboration with the Day of AI initiative and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), hosted the 4th Annual Day of AI celebration. High school students from across the region presented original works developed with the new “AI & the Creative Arts” curriculum, showcasing generative portraits, mixed-media animations, and creative explorations of AI’s social and ethical dimensions. The event brought together educators, technologists, artists, and MIT researchers to highlight how AI is shaping creative expression and what that means for the future of art, learning and society.
New Offerings
The arts curriculum comes in addition to a variety of other offerings, such as Day of AI’s collaboration with Common Sense Media to produce an AI literacy toolkit for parents and caregivers. International collaborators have also been hard at work on translations of curricula, including into Uzbek, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. MIT’s Isabella Pu and Daniella DiPaola continue to provide technical feedback as subject matter experts as Day of AI builds out new material for educators, students, and families.
The First Global Summit
In November, RAISE hosts a two-day landmark Global Summit bringing together global leaders in AI literacy – from pioneering educators and policymakers to researchers and practitioners of the Day of AI program across more than 170 countries. The Summit showcases real-world case studies, foster cross-border collaboration, and spark vital conversations on how we can ensure students of all backgrounds and abilities become responsible and capable users of artificial intelligence. Stay tuned to raise.mit.edu for updates afterward!