'Not understanding a word she’s saying': Critics mock Melania’s advice to tech bros

Social media delivered harsh comedy to Melania Trump’s recent warning to tech-head allies against the threat of A.I.

“The robots are here,” she said. “Our future is no longer science fiction. … As leaders and parents, we must manage A.I.’s growth responsibly. During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat A.I. as we would our own children — empowering, but with watchful guidance.”

The Times reports the first lady was “sitting at the head of a round table that had been set up in the East Room. To her right sat Michael Kratsios, the administration’s tech czar. Also up there was David Sacks, the administration’s go-to guy on crypto and A.I. initiatives; a couple of cabinet secretaries; and the heads of Google and IBM.”

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Sam Altman, former fundraiser and donor to president Barack Obama but the chief executive of OpenAI who now praises Trump at dinners, sat in the front row and listened as Melania Trump recited her statement from a binder. The dinner guest list also included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, alongside more than a dozen other executives from leading AI and tech firms — many former Obama enthusiasts.

What followed on X was a flood of laughter at the idea of Melania Trump talking down to tech heads about the dangers of AI.

Comedian Maggie Reed posted footage of the first lady struggling to deliver tech related wisdom from a podium.

Other critics begged Melania to “tell them about [A.I.-driven] drones that kill the wrong people 30% of the time.”

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Still more critics ragged the first lady for “speaking about AI and not understanding a word she’s saying."

Trump critic Keith Edwards took that moment to post on X Melania’s letter to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which he claimed both “said a lot of nothing” and “may have been written by A.I.”

The Times noted that Melania Trump has pushed a bill to protect women and children online from the spread of deepfake images and revenge porn and internet catfishing schemes, which creates an interesting contrast to her husband, President Donald Trump, who claimed — against the word of his own aides — that recent images of bags being tossed from White House windows were “probably A.I. generated.”

The windows on that side of the building don’t open easily, he said.

The Times also reports Trump musing aloud before reporters earlier that “If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll just have to blame A.I.,” revealing even more of a contradiction to his wife’s warning.