US first lady Melania Trump urges 'watchful guidance' of AI for children

Published connected 05/09/2025 - 14:36 GMT+2 •Updated 16:16

The United States’ first lady, Melania Trump, is championing safe artificial intelligence (AI for children) and has inaugurated a task unit connected AI and puerility education.

On Thursday evening, nan tech elite, including OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, attended a White House gathering pinch President Donald Trump. 

The time was to beforehand nan President’s AI inaugural but nan first woman led nan setup of a task unit connected AI and puerility education, saying “the robots are here”.

The president's executive order was signed successful April to beforehand AI literacy and proficiency among American youth.

These are each nan things that nan first woman said. 

“It’s a beautiful arena today,” she said, opening nan meeting. “We are surviving successful a world of wonder”.

She past pointed to nan perils of AI, specified arsenic nan exertion taking distant caller postgraduate jobs and it being hazardous to intelligence health. The aforesaid time arsenic nan arena nan Federal Trade Commission said it was investigating OpenAI and different AI companies for nan effect their chatbots person connected children’s intelligence health.

“We must negociate AI’s maturation responsibly,” she said, adding that “during this primitive stage” it should beryllium taxable to “watchful guidance.”

But she was not each punishment and gloom astir AI, she said it was besides nan “greatest motor of advancement successful nan history of nan United States of America”.

The tech titans reacted favourably to her speech. 

“It’s a existent honour for maine to beryllium here,” said Google’s Pichai. “You’re really inspiring young group to usage exertion successful bonzer ways,” he added. 

'Torch of innovation'

The first woman has precocious turned her attraction to AI. 

In August, she launched a government-sponsored nationwide title that is designed to promote 5 to six-year-olds to activity together to usage artificial intelligence devices to lick organization issues.

“As personification who created an AI-powered audiobook and championed online information done nan Take It Down Act, I've seen firsthand nan committedness of this powerful technology,” nan first woman said successful a short video announcing nan Presidential AI Challenge. 

“Now, I walk nan torch of invention to you”.

The first woman lobbied Congress to walk authorities imposing penalties for online intersexual exploitation utilizing imagery that is existent aliases an AI-generated deepfake. President Trump signed nan Take It Down Act into rule successful May and had nan first woman motion it, too.

The competitions for nan AI title will beryllium held successful nan spring, followed by a White House arena pinch nan nationalist winners, nan White House person said.