Not content to shove Copilot into every corner of the enterprise it can think of, Microsoft has announced plans to force feed AI to students across its home state of Washington.

Microsoft president Brad Smith announced a new program called Elevate Washington last week that he described as taking advantage of an "opportunity gap" across Washington schools to ensure that every district in the state has equal access to AI tools - Microsoft's AI tools, naturally.

"Analysis of Microsoft data by our AI for Good Lab shows a marked disparity in AI use across the state," Smith noted. Districts in the western part of Washington, where most of the money and economic opportunity is (driven by companies like Microsoft and Amazon), are also where most AI usage happens. In eastern Washington, on the ot

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