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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Mark Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla Chan invested $125 mn in a school for poor kids. Now she is shutting it down to invest in AI

AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been blamed for thousands of job losses around the world but now it is being blamed for shutting down a school also. As per reports, a free school for poor kids in the US is being shut down as the fund meant for it now is going to be invested in AI.

As per reports, the school was founded by Priscilla Chan, wife of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for children from low-income families. The school is now being shut down after nearly a decade as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is shifting its priorities away from education and community programs toward artificial intelligence and biomedical research.

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