Kayla Life isn’t worried about artificial intelligence taking her job.

“The first thing I would say is embrace the terror,” she said of AI. “Put your hands on it. Figure out what’s happening right inside of your own community. Figure out how you can use AI to impact it.”

Life, an Atlanta-based nonprofit founder and entrepreneur, has done just that as she advocates for tech education and nonprofits with an eye on building her own company.

After graduating from Spelman College in 2015, where she studied education and computer science, she moved to New York and began teaching. Somewhere along the way, she realized her students lacked basic tech skills.

“I ran to the principal (and said), ‘We have a problem. There’s no way we are going to … bring them to college preparatory high schools

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