The IOC’s Trustworthy AI Framework raises a practical question on the road to LA28: who is accountable when a system makes a mistake? By :Alexzander Awni | Family First Sports Desk | Analysis Conceptual illustration of artificial intelligence. This is not a photograph of an Olympic technology system. Artificial intelligence can help sports organizations process information at a scale people cannot match. But when a system influences an athlete’s opportunity, safety or reputat

The road toward Los Angeles offers a lesson in role clarity that reaches from elite basketball to the neighborhood gym. By: Brian Taylor, PhD, Director of Sports and Education, Family First Foundation | Family First Sports Desk | Analysis Ryan Webb, then an assistant coach for the Seattle Storm, takes part in a dribbling drill during the Sue Bird Basketball Clinic for military children at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, on January 23, 2015. Archival photograph. An Olymp

Phoenix has recognizable scoring talent and a 45-win season to build on. Consistent possessions will determine how much that talent can deliver. By: Dorian Delta | Family First Sports Desk | Analysis The Phoenix Suns’ downtown arena on August 6, 2022, when it was named Footprint Center. It is now called Mortgage Matchup Center. Archival venue photograph. Early in the 2026–27 NBA season, the Phoenix Suns face a familiar challenge: turning individual scoring ability into a depe

LA28 and the IOC have committed up to $160 million to youth sports. A public scorecard would show whether the children who need it most are being reached. By Richard Awni, Founder and Chairman, Family First Foundation | Family First Sports Desk | Analysis The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s Olympic torch tower on July 28, 1984, the day of the opening ceremony. Archival photograph. Los Angeles can begin measuring the value of its next Olympics before the opening ceremony. The

A 30–16 loss to Denver, Arizona’s tenth straight at home, turned finishing drives and preventing explosive plays into the questions that define the season. By: By Dorian Delta | Family First Sports Desk | Analysis State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals, photographed August 6, 2022. Archival venue photograph; not an image of the October 25, 2026 game. The Arizona Cardinals have two problems that can undo an otherwise competitive afternoon: drive

The technology looks identical. The learning is not. A founder’s guide for families, from 26 years of opening doors for young people. By: Richard Awni, Founder and Chairman, Family First Foundation Most conversations about artificial intelligence start with technology companies, policymakers or investors. Mine started at a scout meeting. My son was in a scout troop at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and so was the son of a fellow father, a technologist named Russell Knight.

The next Olympic Games in Los Angeles will depend on artificial intelligence for far more than faster results. The real test will be whether athletes, journalists and the public can trust how those systems are used. By: Alexzander Awni | Sports Technology and Next Generation Correspondent Editor: Michelle Anne Paris Artificial intelligence will not be a side story at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. By 2028, it will be part of the infrastructure through which athletes prepare,

Artificial intelligence can measure movement, identify patterns and deliver information instantly. It cannot replace the person who teaches an athlete what the information means. By: Brian Taylor | Senior Sports and Athlete Development Correspondent Editor: Michelle Anne Paris By the time the Olympic Games open in Los Angeles in 2028, artificial intelligence will be deeply embedded in elite sport. Athletes and coaches will have access to tools that can analyze movement, ident

From Los Angeles in 1984 to Rio in 2016, technology kept changing the Olympic experience. The enduring measure of progress, however, has always been whether it helps athletes, reporters and fans understand one another more fully. By Richard Awni | Senior Olympic and Sports Correspondent Editor: Michelle Anne Paris I have been fortunate to experience six Summer Olympic Games, beginning in Los Angeles in 1984 and continuing through Seoul, Barcelona, Beijing, London and Rio. Eac

Every meaningful thing starts small, a handful of people who saw something early and decided to build it before it was easy or obvious. The Fourth Grade Village Promise is still at that point. The framework is proven. The classroom data is real. What's still being written is who shows up while this is still a first chapter instead of a finished story. We don't have a neat ask to make here. Just a question worth sitting with: is this the kind of decade-long work you'd want to

Twenty-five years ago, Family First Foundation started from a simple bet: that a child's future shouldn't be decided by circumstances they didn't choose. Every program since has been an attempt to make that bet real. The Fourth-Grade Village Promise is the largest version of that bet yet, a commitment to give every K-12 student in America the training to remain a thinker in the age of artificial intelligence, built on a framework already proven across two years and more than

Every meaningful commitment eventually gets reduced to a number. Here is ours. seventy-four cents. Per student. Per year. Sustained for ten years. That is the full cost of giving every K-12 student in America access to AI Driver's Education, the five-class, five-hour behavioral framework Family First Foundation and the Artificial Intelligence Institute have already built and tested across two years of real classroom deployment. Less than the cost of a pencil, spent every year

A Decade Commitment to Every Child's Mind Some promises are made to a child. This one is made to a generation. Family First Foundation has spent twenty-five years working from a single conviction: that opportunity should never be rationed by ZIP code. Today that conviction meets its largest test yet. Artificial intelligence is already shaping how children think, write, question, and reason. Right now, in the way they're already using it, unsupervised, unstructured, unquestion

A NASA/JPL engineer and a builder of organizations sounded the alarm first. A 25-year Princeton-educated leader just confirmed it from a completely different direction, and joined as Vice President, Strategic Alliances and National Development. Family First Foundation today announced that Brian Taylor has joined the Artificial Intelligence Institute, the organization Family First launched to give students the behavioral foundation to use AI as a thinking tool, not a shortcut

I’ve never met a parent who wanted their kid to think less. Nobody sits down at a parent-teacher conference hoping to hear “your child has really stopped reasoning for themselves this year.” And yet that’s the quiet risk sitting inside every unstructured AI interaction, not because AI is malicious, but because it’s simply very good at making the thinking feel unnecessary. The families who navigate this well aren’t the ones avoiding AI, and they’re not the ones using it consta

Every generation gets handed one technology that quietly rewires how they think, learn, and see the world. For my grandparents, it was television. For me, it was the internet. For the kids in our classrooms right now, it’s AI, and unlike the technologies before it, this one talk back. That’s not a small difference. Television didn’t answer your questions. The early internet made you dig for the answer yourself. AI does neither. It just gives you one, instantly, confidently, a

There’s a version of this moment that sounds discouraging: if AI can produce a passable essay, a decent answer, a competent first draft, what’s left for a student to actually contribute? Everything, it turns out. Just not the part we used to grade fastest. When the baseline answer becomes instant and available to everyone, the thing that actually sets a student apart stops being “did you get to the answer” and starts being “what did you bring to it that a generic answer would

Picture a school five years from now that got this right. It’s not a school with more devices, or a flashier AI tool than the district next door. It’s a school where a sixth grader pauses before typing a question in, because pausing has become a habit, not a rule someone’s enforcing. It’s a school where a teacher can tell, within a few minutes of talking to a student, whether they actually understand something or just found an answer. It’s a school where “AI-ready” doesn’t me

You don’t need a plan. You need about four minutes and one honest question. I say this as someone who’s watched a lot of families navigate this, and also just as a parent myself: the instinct is to either ignore it entirely or turn it into a Big Serious Talk, complete with rules and consequences. Neither one works as well as just asking, at dinner, the way you’d ask about anything else that happened in their day: “Hey, did you use AI for anything today?” Most kids will say ye

I’ve sat in the back of more classrooms than I can count over the past two years, and I still remember the first time a kid caught himself. He was maybe ten. He’d typed a question into the tool, gotten an answer, and started copying it down, the way every one of them starts out, the way we’ve all watched hundreds of times by now. And then he stopped. Read it again. Said, out loud, mostly to himself: “wait, that doesn’t sound right.” And he went back and asked it a follow-up q