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Microsoft Reaches AI Safety and Privacy Agreement with Teachers' Union (AFT)

Social media posts claim Microsoft gave the AFT input on AI safety and privacy rules for classrooms nationwide.

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Tweets from accounts including Breanna Morello and Gunther Eagleman state that Microsoft signed a legally enforceable agreement with Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers. The posts say the union gains a role shaping AI safety and privacy standards for education products used across the country. One tweet notes a watchdog group sent a letter to Senator Ted Cruz requesting an investigation. Separate posts from FFT1776 and JoshuaBradner echo the same claim while questioning the union's influence. A Florida Department of Education post describes its own parent-first AI classroom policy.

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257K

8 Sources, first seen 20d ago

12.5K likes1.4K comments709 saves6.7K reposts

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Summary

Many accounts objected to Microsoft partnering with Randi Weingarten’s teachers union on AI safety standards for schools, calling the union leader a dangerous influence and rejecting union involvement in classroom AI rules.

Based on 84 sentiment-bearing replies from 81 accounts across 4 conversations.

Sentiment

Positive2.5%97.5%Negative

Summary

Many accounts objected to Microsoft partnering with Randi Weingarten’s teachers union on AI safety standards for schools, calling the union leader a dangerous influence and rejecting union involvement in classroom AI rules.

Based on 84 sentiment-bearing replies from 81 accounts across 4 conversations.

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Florida Department of Education@EducationFLOur rule governing AI in classrooms puts PARENTS FIRST, protects student privacy, and keeps teachers at the center of learning. Florida will continue leading the charge in classroom innovation while protecting our students and ensuring our children are prepared for the future.20d
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEaglemanBREAKING: Microsoft just CEDED control of AI in American classrooms to far-left teachers' union boss Ranid Weingarten. The same union that kept your kids home during COVID is now deciding AI policies for students across America. Microsoft and Weingarten are trying to bypass the Trump Administration's AI guidance to push their OWN ideological standards. This will be INDOCTRINATION at scale!20d
Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello🚨JUST IN🚨 Microsoft has signed a legally enforceable agreement giving Randi Weingarten's far-left teachers union oversight of AI safety and privacy standards in classrooms NATIONWIDE. A watchdog group sent a letter to @SenTedCruz demanding an investigation into the deal's impact on MILLIONS of American students. Last year, Senator Cruz forced Microsoft to cut ties with a group caught censoring conservative media for students. Now it's time for him to hold Microsoft accountable AGAIN. The future of our country is too important to ignore. SOURCE: Daily Wire20d
American as Trump@JoshuaBradner@GuntherEagleman Keep letting stupid Indians and loony liberal white women decide major things and we going to be here!20d
Sherri™@FFT1776🚨MICROSOFT JUST MADE A DEAL WITH RANDI WEINGARTEN’S TEACHERS UNION ON AI IN OUR SCHOOLS. Microsoft and the AFT created a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” governing Microsoft’s education products — with the union helping shape the rules. Parents should be asking one very simple question: Why does a teachers union have this much influence over the rules governing AI in America’s classrooms? Protect kids’ privacy? Absolutely. But AI policy in schools should not become another vehicle for politics or ideology.20d
Kira@KiradavisTEACHERS OF AMERICA: Get. Out. Of. The. Teachers. Union. Right. Now.20d
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    Florida Department of Education@EducationFLOur rule governing AI in classrooms puts PARENTS FIRST, protects student privacy, and keeps teachers at the center of learning. Florida will continue leading the charge in classroom innovation while protecting our students and ensuring our children are prepared for the future.20d
    Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEaglemanBREAKING: Microsoft just CEDED control of AI in American classrooms to far-left teachers' union boss Ranid Weingarten. The same union that kept your kids home during COVID is now deciding AI policies for students across America. Microsoft and Weingarten are trying to bypass the Trump Administration's AI guidance to push their OWN ideological standards. This will be INDOCTRINATION at scale!20d
    Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello🚨JUST IN🚨 Microsoft has signed a legally enforceable agreement giving Randi Weingarten's far-left teachers union oversight of AI safety and privacy standards in classrooms NATIONWIDE. A watchdog group sent a letter to @SenTedCruz demanding an investigation into the deal's impact on MILLIONS of American students. Last year, Senator Cruz forced Microsoft to cut ties with a group caught censoring conservative media for students. Now it's time for him to hold Microsoft accountable AGAIN. The future of our country is too important to ignore. SOURCE: Daily Wire20d
    American as Trump@JoshuaBradner@GuntherEagleman Keep letting stupid Indians and loony liberal white women decide major things and we going to be here!20d
    Sherri™@FFT1776🚨MICROSOFT JUST MADE A DEAL WITH RANDI WEINGARTEN’S TEACHERS UNION ON AI IN OUR SCHOOLS. Microsoft and the AFT created a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” governing Microsoft’s education products — with the union helping shape the rules. Parents should be asking one very simple question: Why does a teachers union have this much influence over the rules governing AI in America’s classrooms? Protect kids’ privacy? Absolutely. But AI policy in schools should not become another vehicle for politics or ideology.20d
    Kira@KiradavisTEACHERS OF AMERICA: Get. Out. Of. The. Teachers. Union. Right. Now.20d
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