El Salvador teams up with Elon Musk's xAI to bring AI to 5,000 public schools

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP via Seattle Times

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his administration is partnering with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to bring artificial intelligence into more than 5,000 public schools.

The millennial leader, who previously made El Salvador the first nation to make bitcoin legal tender in 2021, is betting big on technology again.

In a statement Thursday, xAI said that its Grok chatbot will bring “personalized learning to over one million students” by creating tutoring “that adjusts to each student’s pace, preferences, and mastery level — ensuring every child, from urban centers to rural communities, receives world-class education tailored to their needs.”

Bukele said in the statement that El Salvador would be “pioneering AI-driven education.”

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Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/el-salvador-teams-up-with-elon-musks-xai-to-bring-ai-to-5000-public-schools/

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So evil, right-wing, prison-peddling Bukele is teaming up with Musk to put his batshit chatbot in El Salvadoran schools to indoctrinate the kids.

This is the second page of the official El Salvadoran announcement:



"Engineered as a maximally truth-seeking AI companion, Grok delivers insightful answers prioritizing truth and objectivity."

Bullshit. Grok will deliver whatever RW propaganda Musk and Bukele want delivered.

[speak easy]

1. Let me guess, 'Fair And Balanced' education?

[highplainsdem]

3. Yep. And Grok will be there to argue against anything liberal the teachers might say. And maybe

report them to Bukele, because AI's so good at surveillance.

[speak easy]

5. That's what I don't get - that people do not understand or care that AI keeps record of every chat

so it's perfect for monetisation and surveillance. And with all the Federal data that Musk has hoovered up he is well placed to manipulate elections. Nobody seems to care. This time round I expect him to demand money for his 'expertise.'

[highplainsdem]

6. People can be very foolish about AI when they find it in any way useful or amusing. That's why

these tools have been released for free or almost free, though AI companies plan on steep price increases in the future, once they have the suckers hooked.

[speak easy]

7. Open AI started to put tailored ads in the 'free' tier

https://au.pcmag.com/ai/114594/openais-app-suggestions-create-confusion-concern-about-intrusive-ads

but they have canned it for now. I wonder if Grok will feature political ads, and/or nudges?

[highplainsdem]

8. There will be a lot of nudges that the brainwashed AI users won't realize are manipulation.

[Polybius]

9. They keep a record so you can pull it up, but you can delete it

Is it still there on their end if it's deleted?

[speak easy]

11. Is it still there if it's deleted? I'm guessing yes.

Why would they delete potentially valuable information when storing text is beyond dirt cheap?

[msongs]

2. sounds like a trump clone to me...and ai will channel the bukele agenda under the guise of education nt

[highplainsdem]

4. I'm sure Trump would love to have RW chatbots in every American classroom.

[valleyrogue]

10. What a disaster.

"Technology" isn't the big cure-all it is being trumped up to be.

[2naSalit]

12. A country's entire...

Population of youth will poisoned with this shit.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Nosotros somos el Borg.

La resistencia es inútil. Serás asimilado.









(Hey, I used Google Translate. If there are errors ... blame them on AI. )

[Solly Mack]

14. Gah

[travelingthrulife]

15. stupid. stupid. stupid.

[róisín_dubh]

16. Oh goodie, an AI platform already known for depicting...

awful violence against women will now be used to educate kids in a country known for- wait for it- awful violence against women and girls.

I swear to fuck, I want off this planet.

[Prairie Gates]

17. Fuck AI, fuck Elon Musk, and fuck Bukele - bunch of fascist shite