Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI

Pivoting from her anti-bullying campaign, the US first lady has inaugurated a taskforce on AI and childhood education

Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots.

The first lady welcomed some of the US’s foremost tech leaders – and a few bit players – to the East Wing of the White House on Thursday to inaugurate a taskforce on artificial intelligence and schools as part of an initiative dubbed the “Presidential AI Challenge”. The event concerned how to integrate AI into childhood education.