Melania Trump’s Warning About the AI Boom

First lady urges tech sector to be responsible and ‘watchful.’

First Lady Melania Trump presides over a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House on Thursday in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Last month, Melania Trump announced the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to help spur new projects with the innovation. This week, the first lady sharpened her tone about the advancing technology, warning it is the responsibility of leaders and parents to treat AI “as we would our children—empowering, but with watchful guidance.”

In the East Room of the White House Thursday, Mrs. Trump hosted members of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education and private sector leaders that included Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, and David Sacks, White House AI and crypto czar. The heads of Google, IBM and OpenAI were also in attendance.

“The robots are here,” she said. “Ou…