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The Guardian - US
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Dara Kerr

Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI

Melania Trump seated next to a US flag, seen through a circular shadow in the foreground.
Melania Trump at a meeting of the White House taskforce on AI education in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots.

The first lady welcomed some of the US’s foremost tech leaders – and a few bit players – to the East Wing of the White House on Thursday to inaugurate a taskforce on artificial intelligence and schools as part of an initiative dubbed the “Presidential AI Challenge”. The event concerned how to integrate AI into childhood education.

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