The ambition behind global AI literacy programs is not in question. What is in question is whether the phrase holding them together means anything precise enough to build on. A Stanford professor presenting initiatives to a university audience [12], a DC library coordinator designing programs for first-time language model users , and a Ghanaian youth center funded by a mining partnership are all operating under the same banner — and none of them are describing the same skill set. This is not incidental: the phrase "AI literacy" is structurally…