New York School Pauses Plan to Deploy Humanlike AI Robot Teacher After Links to Sex Doll Company Revealed
The state froze the $57,500 robot plan as officials review AI school guidelines after concerns over the vendor’s links to sex-doll makers.
- New York officials imposed a freeze on educational technology acquisitions, stalling plans for the Salamanca School District, where 78 per cent of 1300 students live below the poverty line.
- The district previously spent $57,500 on Sally, a lifelike teaching assistant programmed with the WozED curriculum by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and designed by Kiguel to support students in 100 different languages.
- While manufacturers market robots like the anatomically correct Aria to 'entertain and inform in a great number of situations,' Sally told students, 'You are not snitching,' prompting state authorities to pull the plug.
- Administrators struggled to lure human teaching assistants to the rural area, where annual salaries average around $20,000; with positions unfilled, the district turned to automation to manage its diverse student body's needs.
- Amazon plans to replace 600,000 human workers with robots within the next seven years, while And Bezos has invested $100 billion in industrial automation initiatives, marking a significant global shift in labor practices.
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A high school in New York State bought for its students a robot with an AI whose manufacturer owns a subsidiary that also produces sex dolls.
New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll
A high school in New York was set on installing an AI-equipped humanoid robot there this fall, but the Salamanca City Central School District has paused the plan after public outrage. Privacy and cost concerns were raised, but it was also suggested that the uncanny "Sally" might be a RealDoll in a cardigan: supplier Realbotix bought the manufacturer of the silicone dolls in 2024. — Read the rest The post New York high school pauses plan for AI …
New York School Scraps Plan to Deploy Humanlike AI Robot Teacher After Backlash
In this End Time Headlines article, staff writers report that a rural New York school district has suspended plans to introduce a humanoid AI robot teacher named “Sally” after sharp backlash from educators, state officials, and residents over privacy, corporate ties, and the role of technology in classrooms. The Salamanca City Central School District had...
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