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Speaker 1: The Scouts are now offering official merit badges for cybersecurity

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Speaker 1: and artificial intelligence. Darren Johnson is the chief program officer

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Speaker 1: for the Spirit of Adventure Council.

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Speaker 2: They're really designed to provide a basic introduction of AI

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Speaker 2: and cybersecurity to Scouts, with both the technical aspect of it,

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Speaker 2: but also the ethical aspect of both of them as well.

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Speaker 1: Johnson says AI is a whole new frontier for the Scouts.

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Speaker 1: To earn the badge, Scouts will have to answer questions

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Speaker 1: about artificial intelligence, demonstrate they know how to use it,

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Speaker 1: and explore career opportunities in AI. Johnson says it's all

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Speaker 1: part of the organization's effort to keep up with modern trends.

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Speaker 2: You know, this is just a different world that we

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Speaker 2: live in than we did one hundred and fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 2: and you know, there's other risks and other things that

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Speaker 2: we need to think about and cybersecurity, cybersecurity and AI

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Speaker 2: is definitely one of those.

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Ross WBZ, Boston's news radio