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Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jane Rosenzweig
“Just two of many questions: 1. Why anthropomorphize ("female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair")? Notably, students will interact with the bot by providing a identification codes, so obvs. not like …” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Taylor Lorenz Hypervisible Luke Stark sorelle Dare Obasanjo Charles Logan Meredith Rose +4
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“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

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“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…”

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“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

4 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Ai slop books biography amazon

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jane Rosenzweig
“The person who has 445 AI-generated books on Amazon told @kashhill.bsky.social that “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.” (I wonder what he would think of Roal…” evidence ↗
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Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3
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Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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Jane Rosenzweig: Holy shit Jane Rosenzweig was my freshman expository writing teacher back in 2004 A genius and a true defender of human ingenuity Her firing by Harvard is fucking outrageous DOWN WITH THE CHATBOTS
Jane Rosenzweig: Oh the good old days of "Where are you going, where have you been?"
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