On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.” This move marks a pivotal step in preparing students for an AI-powered world—by promoting AI literacy in schools, training educators, and building national momentum behind responsible, equitable access to AI tools.
But here’s the catch: schools can’t just throw open the doors to AI and hope for the best. They need visibility. Guardrails. Oversight. That’s where Lightspeed comes in.
Through our products, we help schools make use of AI safe, managed, appropriate, reported, and transparent.
SMART AI Initiative
- Seguro: Protegendo os alunos de conteúdo de IA prejudicial, inapropriado ou tendencioso.
- Gerenciou: Governando o acesso à IA por função, idade e propósito educacional.
- Apropriado: Garantir que o uso da IA promova o aprendizado, a cidadania digital e a integridade acadêmica.
- Relatado: Monitorar e expor atividades de IA para supervisão e responsabilização.
- Transparente: Comunicar abertamente o uso, as políticas e as proteções da IA com as famílias e a equipe.
AI Access, the SMART Way
Lightspeed Systems makes it easy for schools to responsibly open up access to AI—so students can explore, learn, and innovate, while districts maintain safety, privacy, and instructional integrity. Ai guardrails are incorporated across our solutions.
1. Lightspeed Filter™
Enable or block different types of AI tools by group, grade, or user. Whether it’s restricting generative AI for younger students or allowing vetted tools for high school research, Filtro puts the right level of control in IT’s hands.
2. Lightspeed Insight™
Get detailed reporting on AI use—by app, user, and time of day. Want to see which students are regularly using ChatGPT, or how many hours are being spent on AI art generators? Entendimento makes that data visible and actionable. You can also see AI apps in use (or requested) right alongside their privacy and security assessments to simplify vetting. Integration with Lightspeed Filter means you can block unapproved AI apps in a single click.
3. Lightspeed Classroom™
Teachers receive real-time notifications when students launch AI tools during class—helping them make sure it’s being used for learning, not cheating. With Sala de aula, there’s no more flying blind during writing assignments or assessments.
4. Lightspeed Alert™
Monitor AI usage for safety red flags. Alerta detects and escalates concerning prompts or behaviors—like asking AI about self-harm, violence, or bypassing school policies. Our trained Human Review team evaluates context and notifies schools when action is needed.
Built with AI, for AI
- At Lightspeed, we don’t just support schools using AI—we use it ourselves to make our products, services, and internal processes smarter.
- Our AI-powered app database drives classification and insights in Lightspeed Insight and Signal, helping districts quickly assess risk, usage, and value across thousands of tools.
- Our dynamic content categorization engine in Lightspeed Filter uses AI to accurately classify billions of URLs—before the student visits the page and sees the inappropriate content.
- Lightspeed Alert uses AI to surface signs of harm, accurately identifying students at risk and passing that information to human for confirmation and intervention.
- Classroom taps AI to help educators spot disengagement and redirect students in the moment.
We believe in the potential of AI—but only when it’s used transparently, safely, and ethically. That’s the Lightspeed standard.
Embracing the Future with SMART AI
This executive order is a national call to action—and the beginning of a new chapter in education. As AI becomes part of every student’s future, schools need partners who can help them manage the risks while unlocking the rewards. That’s why we launched SMART AI, an initiative built to make safe, managed, appropriate, reported, and transparent AI use easier for schools.
SMART AI is about giving districts the tools, insights, and support they need to use AI with confidence, not confusion.
Lightspeed Systems helps schools say “yes” to AI—with confidence.