On Tuesday morning, Melania Trump reemerged from wherever she goes when she hides from public view for weeks at a time to unveil a new project she’s leading: the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge.

“Are you ready for an AI challenge?” the First Lady asked in the brief announcement video. “As someone who created an AI-powered audiobook and championed online safety through the Take It Down Act I’ve seen firsthand the promise of this powerful technology.”

That act, which fights deepfakes and “revenge porn,” isn’t really about the “promise” of AI . And the First Lady using an AI-replicated version of her voice to read her 7-hour memoir was widely viewed as weird and lazy . But sure, Melania has some first hand-experience with the technology.

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