Posted on 09/05/2025 2:22:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The second meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education took place Thursday, presented by the administration as a turning point for America’s public schools. First Lady Melania Trump presided over the session, created under President Trump’s April executive order on AI education.
The gathering brought together senior administration officials and some of the most powerful figures in technology. Mrs. Trump introduced the participants as “visionaries” and “the brightest minds of our time.” At the table sat Sundar Pichai of Google and Arvind Krishna of IBM, alongside Education Secretary Linda McMahon and AI czar David Sacks. Task force chair Michael Kratsios joined them, along with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Sam Altman of OpenAI was also in attendance.
In the evening, the Trumps hosted a private dinner at the White House attended by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Tim Cook of Apple, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Palantir executive Shyam Sankar, among many other titans of global technology and finance. The lineup underscored how closely the administration is binding itself to the architects of the digital economy.
“Robots Are Here”
Melania Trump’s remarks were sweeping and oddly grandiose. She cast AI not as a tool, but as a national destiny.
“We are living in a moment of wonder, and it is our responsibility to prepare America’s children,” she began.
The framing reached for grandeur, but her examples fell flat. She cited self-driving cars, military drones, robots assisting surgeries, humanoids in factories — all pitched as AI triumphs fueled by private investment. None of these technologies are widespread, affordable, or obviously serving the public good. Still, she pressed forward with the line...
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Not the first airhead First Lady, but getting herself more and more involved with policy, which is worrisome.
In an eternal world, AI would be the greatest teacher of all time because you can keep going back for lessons and discussing those lessons fully until you get it.
HOwever, we don’t yet live in an eternal world. We live in the world where the billionaire class wants the entire population turned into android servants through the singularity.
Indeed, AI is not for our benefit.
We won’t need humans anymore.
NO... Period...
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.” - Winston Churchill
Melania Trump isn’t an airhead.
“sink into the abyss”
I believe that started with Malthus...or maybe Essau.
Sure she’s not.
Takes one to know one.
An airhead would have been long gone from this situation, and long ago.
Agree that it’s worrisome with her being involved in policy.
Totally disagree about the “airhead” comment.
So how’s she doing on policy?
I rest my case.
Sure.
Meanwhile, if it takes one to know one...
I’ll go further for you, Trump’s offspring are all about cashing in, too, at the risk of world affairs and alignments:
turnaround joke fail.
Can’t take the truth of your claim. Three fingers pointing back at yourself and all of that.
Nothing grandiose. A completely appropriate and expected presentation for the administration.
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