You will die inside when you hear how Trump’s education secretary pronounces “ai”

It seems that the secretary of education of President Donald Trump, Linda McMahon, needs an introduction into artificial intelligence.

During education summit Organized by the venture capital of the Silicon Valley, the named of Trump, 76 years old and former promoter of professional struggle, said on several occasions “AI” as “A1”, the Name of a popular steak sauce Produced by Kraft Heinz.

The confusing appearance suggested that McMahon does not know how to pronounce one of the most omnipresent acronyms of modern society.

“I want me to remember the source, but there is a school system that will start to ensure that first-year students or even pre-KS have an A1 education each year to go so far in the ratings,” she told the public.

McMahon was expressed during a round table which also assisted Julia Stiglitz, CEO of Uplimit, a company that claims to exploit AI to stimulate business learning, and Vijay Karunamurthy, the CTO of Scale AI, an IA data annotation company based in San Francisco.

In other words, the rest of the convened panel had a fairly good idea of ​​what AI is, unlike McMahon.

“Children are sponges, they absorb everything, and therefore it was not so long that we are going to have the internet in our schools,” said McMahon. “Now agree, let's see A1, and how can it be useful in individual education.”

The Internet was introduced into American public schools from the middle to the end of the 1990s, much more than two decades ago.

Some have raised the possibility that McMahon was talking about the America First Policy Institute, a group which she previously presided over, sometimes called “1A Policy Institute”. But it does not seem to mention this group before during the appearance of the panel, and the context of “A1” quotes certainly seems to concern the possibilities of AI in the educational system. (Adding to the confusion, she pronounces “Ai” correctly earlier in the video.)

Anyway, Trump's education secretary seems to be terribly unreservedly for the position, because she has no education experience. She is very well known for having founded the business entity which has finally turned into World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., alongside her husband Vince McMahon, in the 1980s.

She was also an administrator of the Small Business Administration during the first Trump administration.

The embarrassing moment of McMahon is particularly disturbing because the use of AI in class has proven to be very controversial.

World students open -arm. It is despite the persistent technical challenges, as Widespread hallucinationsLifting concerns that impressable young students could take inherently imperfect and potentially deceptive results of these AI tools at their nominal value.

The first efforts to introduce the AI ​​in class were also welcomed by skepticism. Critics argue that Human educators can never be truly replacedWhile supporters say that AI tools could release their time to focus on more urgent issues.

The teachers are already massively overwhelmed and underpaid, the argument goes and the AI ​​could remove part of this charge.

Even more disturbing, a recent study By organizing educational resources, Twinkl found that 62% of American educators have regularly incorporated AI in their work. However, 69% of American teachers said that they had not received any official training from the AI ​​of their schools, which indicates that they are not prepared.

Although it is not clear which McMahon initiative was referring to its recent appearance, a certain number of companies have I tried to introduce AI tools which allow young elementary children and pre-ks to generate short stories or create interactive presentations.

However, relying on AI at first in the education of a child could have serious side effects.

“The big question becomes if children can benefit from these AI interactions in a way similar to the way they benefit from interacting with other people,” said assistant professor of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ying XU Episode of the school podcast Last year.

“There is the excitement that AI has the personalized learning potential and to help students develop skills for this AI-focused company,” she added. “But like many of you, I share the same concerns about the prospect of this, what we call” AI generation “.

According to XU, the use of AI tools, this beginning, the risk that children become “more attached to AI than to people around them”.

In short, considering that Trump's Secretary of Education does not seem to be informed about how to pronounce the acronym “AI”, the government's ability to shape the role of AI in education in an informed and justified manner is also clear.

Besides, Trump Announced plans To dismantle the American education department last month, so these are questions with individual states will have to tackle.

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