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A robot teacher is the least of your concerns...
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Last week, First Lady Melania Trump invited a robot humanoid to accompany her on stage at the “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit” on AI Education and Safety for Children at the White House. A creepy white robot with a human-like physique walked with the First Lady down a red carpet before greeting guests in English and ten other languages and stating, “I am grateful to be part of this historic movement to empower children with technology and education.” The message was clear. This humanoid may be your child’s future teacher. This robot, Figure 03, seemed to enrage both sides of the aisle. My liberal-leaning public school teacher friends were outraged at the suggestion that they could be replaced by robots. My conservative friends grieved the non-human ick threatening the beauty of Western Civilization. A few days after this dystopian spectacle, I saw a few responses circulating online. Many of them shared similar sentiments: “Dear Trump and your whole administration, You won’t catch us having a robot teach our kids anything. Bring back a REAL education, with REAL people and REAL work.” But I saw a few apt answers to these types of posts. One mom wrote, “Yes, you will. You will let your kids be taught by robots because look at what you’ve already allowed.” Exactly. If you let your kindergarteners go to school in masks… If you let your child do “online homework” on an unregulated laptop… If you let teachers feed your child’s mind with Marxist ideology… If you let your children march in pride parades around their elementary school or visit a school library filled with LGBTQ+ books... If you let your child get beat up by young radicals, usually with no consequence… Or watch them to get stabbed to death by peers groomed by black victimhood culture… I promise, you will let your kids be taught by robots. In fact, if you’ve subjected your children to the other things listed here, humanoid teachers should be the least of your concerns. |
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The Truth Teller is where I try to discern what's true in the current cultural moment. If you like what you read here, I'd be honored if you share it with a friend.
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