Artificial Intelligence is invading classrooms — and the minds of children — almost as fast as the technology is developing. And thanks to massive pressure from the White House, the United Nations, and Big Tech companies, there are virtually no guardrails so far.
In the age of Big Tech tyranny and endless government expansion, even seemingly well-meaning initiatives from the Trump administration demand rigorous scrutiny. That is especially true when the hearts and minds of the next generation, and hence the future of the nation, are involved.
White House AI Agenda
First Lady Melania Trump has emerged as one of the most vocal champions of AI in America’s classrooms. She has been tasked with spearheading efforts tied to President Donald Trump’s April 2025 Executive Order on “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.”
On the surface, it sounds innovative, even essential — preparing kids for the future, leveling the playing field, harnessing technology for “world-class education,” and making sure America’s children are prepared to compete in a global economy.
But dig deeper, and familiar patterns emerge: federal bureaucrats coordinating with Big Tech giants, massive data collection on children, personalized “learning” algorithms that could reprogram young minds, and eerie parallels with the United Nations’ long-standing push for AI-driven global education standards.
Parents, beware. This is not neutral progress. It appears to be yet another front in the ongoing war against parental rights, privacy, and independent thought.
Speaking in late March at the Fostering the Future Together initiative at the White House, Melania unveiled an AI humanoid robot. “The future of AI is ‘personified’ — it will be formed in the shape of humans,” the First Lady said, echoing comments by Bill Gates about AI’s growing role in education.
Big Tech & Feds Join Forces
In response, AI expert Joe Allen slammed the move. “‘Own the libs’ by feeding your kids to Moloch,” he joked in a post on social media. “Half these kids were made functionally illiterate by digital technology and now they’re giving them robot teachers to fix it. How will our enemies ever compete?”
President Trump’s executive order, signed April 23, 2025, sets the policy: “promote AI literacy and proficiency among Americans by promoting the appropriate integration of AI into education, providing comprehensive AI training for educators, and fostering early exposure to AI concepts and technology.”
Among other measures, the order establishes a White House Task Force on AI Education. Chaired by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the outfit is stacked with cabinet secretaries from the departments of Education, Labor, Energy, Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, and more.
The Task Force’s mandate includes public-private partnerships with “leading AI industry organizations.” Together, they are supposed to develop K-12 resources, guidance for federal grants to states and locals, teacher training via Elementary and Secondary Education Act funds, and a Presidential AI Challenge to “highlight student and educator achievements in AI.”
Melania Trump has thrown her full weight behind it. She launched the Presidential AI Challenge, hosted summits with world leaders’ spouses under her “Fostering the Future Together” global coalition, and even paraded a U.S.-made humanoid robot at White House events.
In public remarks, she has been direct. “We are living in a moment of wonder, and it is our responsibility to prepare children in America,” she stated during a Task Force meeting. She has praised AI as “a great equalizer” that can “level the educational playing field for all children.”
“The robots are here,” she declared. “Our future is no longer science fiction.” In an op-ed, she urged, “Do not dismiss the power of AI—open your mind to its potential, and educate yourself.” Among other claims, the First Lady argued that AI offers “access to an elite education” for all. That should help America’s children “outpace the global community,” she said.
The Risks: Surveillance, Manipulation, Control
These are the words of a First Lady who seems to care about children’s futures. Yet good intentions do not immunize against the dangers. As this writer has documented repeatedly in The Newman Report and elsewhere, AI in government schools is not just software. It is a vector for unprecedented surveillance and psychological manipulation.
AI systems track, analyze, and compile not only academic performance but emotions, behaviors, and even moral leanings. Using technologies including facial expression monitors, facial recognition, affective computing, and “personalized learning” platforms, these systems go far beyond George Orwell’s most horrific visions.
Every click, hesitation, or facial expression becomes data harvested by unaccountable tech firms in bed with federal agencies. Indeed, official U.S. Department of Education reports going back over a decade have boasted that all of this would be used to “predict” future behaviors, interests, and performance of students.
Who controls the algorithms? Who decides what values get reinforced or corrected? Why, Big Tech and Big Government, of course. Even if you trust the Trump administration, the next one, or the one after that, could easily turn all of this in a different and far more dangerous direction.
In an era when public schools already function as indoctrination centers — pushing everything from gender ideology and critical race theory to climate hysteria and godlessness — AI supercharges the process. Unless it is stopped, AI will become the most powerful tool for shaping anti-Christian worldviews ever devised, all deployed without parental knowledge.
Trump’s executive order explicitly calls for “online resources focused on teaching K-12 students foundational AI literacy and critical thinking skills” through industry partnerships. But whose “critical thinking”? The same federal Department of Education that has spent decades centralizing control via Common Core and ESSA grants?
The order directs the Secretary of Education to issue guidance on using grants for AI-based tutoring, career navigation, and more—expanding federal strings attached to state and local schools. This is the very opposite of the local control and parental authority conservatives have long demanded, and Trump campaigned on.
Instead, Trump and the First Lady are working to federalize curriculum development in perhaps the single most important field, AI, all under the guise of innovation. Those who have studied the decline of U.S. education will recognize instantly the parallels with the very “education reform” scams that have dumbed down generations.
UNESCO & Global Education
Even more alarming are the globalist echoes. Melania’s “Fostering the Future Together” initiative is explicitly global. Indeed, it features cross-cultural “virtual reality” experiences with foreign dignitaries and remarks at the UN Security Council on AI’s role in “expanding access to knowledge and education worldwide.”
Disturbingly, this aligns closely with the UN’s own AI-in-education agenda. UNESCO’s Artificial Intelligence and Education: Guidance for Policy-Makers and its AI competency frameworks for students and teachers push “ethical” AI, “inclusion and equity,” and human-centered approaches explicitly tied to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 4 on education).
The Beijing Consensus on AI and Education, adopted by governments from around the world in 2019, calls for global cooperation on AI policies — precisely the sort of multilateralism that has always masked efforts to erode national sovereignty and parental rights.
Trump’s order, as this writer noted last year, injects AI into all education, in line with UN demands. Public-private partnerships with the same Silicon Valley players who fund globalist forums are unlikely to help American children. Cross-border “challenges” and summits represent the UN’s longtime agenda, repackaged in red, white, and blue.
The risks to children are profound. AI does not merely teach facts; it personalizes propaganda. As this writer has warned, drawing on experts and whistleblowers, these systems can detect “wrongthink” on issues like faith, family, or patriotism, then intervene with corrective content.
Data harvested from millions of students feeds into national databases, creating digital dossiers ripe for abuse by future administrations or foreign actors. Privacy? Gone. Critical thinking? Replaced by algorithm-driven conformity. And with Big Tech’s track record — censorship, bias, and ubiquitous surveillance — trusting them to “empower” children is absurd.
President Trump’s administration has scored real victories against the administrative state and globalism. But handing education policy to a multi-agency Task Force in league with AI oligarchs risks repeating the mistakes of past “reforms.”
True preparation for the future demands rejecting federal ed-tech overreach, not embracing it. It calls for teaching children how to think and nurturing a love of truth while giving them tools, a solid foundation, and a biblical worldview. AI education, controlled by forces hostile to God and His Word, will do the opposite.
Parents must reclaim their God-given authority: homeschool where possible, demand transparency on AI tools in schools, and expose the surveillance state masquerading as innovation.
Melania Trump is right that we face a “moment of wonder.” But wonder without wisdom and discernment is dangerous, to put it mildly. America’s children deserve better than becoming data points in a UN-style global AI experiment. The fight for their minds — and our republic — is more urgent than ever. It all begins with education.
Article posted with permission from Alex Newman
