Washington (AP) – Melania Trump On Tuesday, students invited K-12 students to participate in a government-sponsored national contest. artificial intelligence A tool to solve community problems.
“As someone who created an AI-powered audiobook and defended online safety, Please defeat itIn a short video announcing the President’s AI challenge, First Lady said, “Now I’ll give you a torch of innovation.”
“We are poised to lead again just as America once led the world into the sky,” she continued. “This time, it’s the age of AI.”
All students from kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to “unleash their imagination and demonstrate the spirit of American innovation.”
Students sign up to complete the project using artificial intelligence methods or tools to address community challenges.
Michael Kratsoos, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, said the project’s possibilities are “limitless,” but the goal of the task is to encourage students to collaborate as they use artificial intelligence in adulthood.
“We want American youth to plug in, work on and use AI tools,” he said in an interview Tuesday about Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends.”
Registration opens on Tuesday Website. Adult mentors or teachers must sponsor the team. Submissions will be paid by the end of December. The regional conference will take place in the spring, followed by a White House event with recipients from around the country, Kratzos said.
The contest was requested by an Presidential Order President Donald Trump has signed on advances in artificial intelligence education for young Americans.
In May, First Lady announced that the audio version of her 2024 memoir, Melania, is “using artificial intelligence and narrated in her own voice.”
She also highlighted the negative aspects of AI when she lobbyed Congress to pass laws that impose penalties for online sexual exploitation using real or AI-generated deepfake images. president Trump signed Take It Down Act She got caught up in the law in May and got her signed by the First Lady too.
