Ten short, plain-language slide decks on the core of the AI conversation — calibrated for legislators, school boards, agency staff, small businesses, clinicians, manufacturers, and citizens.
SCAIO Learn is the public-facing education layer of the South Carolina Artificial Intelligence Observatory. The primers below are designed to be opened in 10 minutes — read straight through, navigated with arrow keys, or referenced one slide at a time.
Each primer covers one audience and one set of questions: what AI is, what it does, what it does not do, what's already happening in South Carolina, and what would help. The writing is plainspoken, the examples are SC-specific, and the editorial posture matches the rest of SCAIO's work — positive, constructive, neutral, and honest about what we know.
These primers are step one of a Phase 4 education effort. The same content will become avatar-narrated short videos as the work develops. Suggestions, corrections, and topic requests are welcome at scaio.org/#contact.
Click any card to open the primer. Use the arrow keys to navigate, or press Escape to exit fullscreen.
A plainspoken primer on Large Language Models — what they are, what they can and cannot do, the vocabulary of the policy conversation, and where they already show up in South Carolina.
A school-board primer on H.5253 (AI in Education), classroom AI realities, equity considerations across SC's 79 districts, eight procurement questions, and a starter model board policy.
Procurement is policy. Five contract questions every SC contracting officer should ask, federal templates SC can borrow, peer-state precedents, and five concrete moves a legislator can make without new law.
Deepfakes, voice cloning, and AI-generated content — what to know, what habits work better than trying to spot fakes by eye, the SC-specific risks worth planning for, and who to contact when something circulates.
Six use cases that work today, a realistic cost picture, three risks to plan around, five questions before adopting any AI tool, and where to start in priority order. Practical, not theoretical.
What clinical AI deployment looks like in SC today — MUSC, the Clemson–MUSC AI Hub, S.443 (Health Claims and AI), the two-tiered risk between major systems and rural hospitals, and three questions for every clinical-AI deployment.
The SC manufacturing base, the Figure AI / BMW Spartanburg pilot in context, four categories of applied AI on plant floors today, the workforce question, and the applied industrial-AI consortium proposal.
Where AI shows up in local government, the cybersecurity surface (phishing, voice cloning, ransomware), a five-point cyber-readiness checklist, procurement basics, and three shared-infrastructure moves SC is positioned to make.
25 key AI terms in plain language, calibrated for South Carolina legislators. Cross-referenced to SC legislation. Designed as a quick-reference card, not a sequential read.
A 10-minute orientation to SC's AI ecosystem — the five regions, the four institutional anchors, the policy picture, the major applied deployments, and where to go next inside SCAIO.
The same content will become avatar-narrated short videos as Phase 4 develops — first-person delivery, 5-10 minute runtime, designed for sharing in committee meetings, district trainings, and short-form social distribution.
SCAIO is also developing primers on additional audiences: county council members, AI in agriculture, AI for SC nonprofits, AI in the courts. If your audience would benefit from a primer not listed here, tell us.