Big Tech Is Funding AI Lesson Plan Seminars that Parents Increasingly Do Not Want

https://gizmodo.com/big-tech-funding-ai-trainings-2000674753

There were positive things about INSET days: the chance to catch up with colleagues, the shorter day with no marking to oversee and, yes, a change from the routine. But she sighed as she sat down at her console and the sponsor began. She zoned out as the corporate imaginaries filled the room. But then the work really began and she steeled herself for the conversation, the negotiation. The Agent presented her lesson plans, personalised for her class, for each child in her class. She took a breath: “no,” she said, “that’s not going to work for Chris, believe me.”