Overview
- Melania Trump, who arrived with the humanoid Figure 3 on Wednesday, used a White House summit to promote AI-driven, personalized learning.
- The robot introduced itself at the event, thanked the First Lady, and left before her speech.
- NEA president Becky Pringle urged educator-led decisions with strong safety and privacy guardrails, and AFT’s Randi Weingarten called the showcase “every parent’s nightmare.”
- The administration’s push drew added scrutiny after the president the same day named Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang to a new AI and technology advisory council.
- Teachers, academics, and religious leaders said humanoid “educators” could weaken learning and student-teacher relationships and raise ethical and data-security concerns.