NY high school to pilot humanoid robot, teachers call it inappropriate
Me and my friends would've killed the humanoid robot high school teacher with hammers I can tell you that much.
Mark Yarm5JK, me and my friends would've just drawn mean comics about the humanoid robot high school teacher.
jadedragon2.bsky.social5Horrible!! Is that what it looks like??? That alone is a HUGE issue! Young girls have enough trouble feeling good about their looks without that thing being held up as an example!
Witty Librarian Resistance5My class of middle schoolers would have done every logic bomb and audio distraction in the books (and probably invent a few new ones) and force the AI teacher into a meltdown without ever touching the poor thing.
Sophie, Queen of Squirrels4This is the history of a super legit company. "Realbotix, formerly Tokens.com, a Toronto-based company, purchased Simulacra, a Las Vegas-based company known for realistic sex dolls, for $16.7m in April 2024, marking a pivot for the company from crypto to humanoid robots."
DogDadBod3Wouldn't that have disrupted all the others trying to fuck it?
Cherteapet2'The robot, named Sally, was purchased by the Cattaraugus county school district – which includes Salamanca high school – for $57,590. ...'
A Western New York school district has halted its plans to place a humanoid robot in a classroom after a New York Focus report on the plan sparked fierce debate over the use of artificial intelligence in schools and backlash from local parents.
Ryan Marino, MD12They already spent $58K on this! I wanna know how much they’re paying real teachers
Greg Pak6Sincere thanks for covering this story!!!
CRobertBuchanan5How in the fuck could you be a member of a school board or a school administrator and think that your priority should be to bring in a humanoid fucking robot into the kids classroom? Everyone should resign in shame.
Greg Pak164GOOD. SHAME THIS BULLSHIT WHEREVER YOU SEE IT.
Charles Logan19Reason to support local journalism #42,917
Chris Ingraham14you're telling me not everyone was on board with letting the sexbot company put a robot in a public school classroom? bsky.app/profile/nysf...
Alexandra Gallant-Lee13This school district is about an hour from where I grew up and oh, the rage within me when I saw this initial reporting, I am grateful a stop was put to this, we cannot accept this - these are literally experiments companies want to do on children under the guise of educating them. Despicable.
Tracy O’Connell Novick5I will note for those who scoff: Sometimes state oversight is good and protects students.
norfölkology5A real story and there’s no paywall and it delivers the goods LOL
Genie Lauren4The parents had to find out through the news?!?!
onetrooluff.bsky.social2I cannot believe they had to have a public backlash to tell them this was a terrible, ridiculous, nonsensical idea.
wee boss2don’t just hit the pause button; scrap that shit
Jenn Borgioli Binis2Commissioner Rosa remains one of NYS's greatest public education (and student) advocates and goodness, we are lucky to have her.
‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school
Jeffy 🌿10They could have hired a teaching assistant with that money. Plus the fact that it's a school with a large indigenous population is definitely, uh... a choice.
Infosecsie (ツンデレ)7Why does the robot in the image look like one of those sex dolls? People couldn’t afford them and they needed to repurpose them, orrr???
Marilyn Tatman4It's ridiculous. Students will have less respect for an object than they do real teachers. The only thing it will teach is divisiveness. As a teacher, I often need to pivot my approach to reach kids all over the spectrum, that can't be programmed, it takes years of knowing them as individuals.
Quidam3That robot would be covered in spit balls within the first hour.
Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️2Looking at the article, the robot pictured is NOT the robot being used in the school. Although all pictures of their robots look equally creepy.
paolina2018.bsky.social2"Realbotix has denied ties to the sex doll company" So why does she look like that, then? "Out of all the schools in New York state ... they chose to experiment on Native American children yet again" 👍 Completely off the mark, utterly tone-deaf.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈42notice they're only doing this in schools with large minority populations.
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)9Creepy and scary at the same time:
Neil Pajamas8Putting a sex doll in classroom isn't going help teach teenage boys that women are people.
Peter Counter, Nightmare Host8if someone seriously suggests replacing your child's teacher with a phone taped to recycled sex doll, you are allowed to punch them
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa5One of the points I make in The Celluloid Specimen is that behaviorists were drawn to classroom tech for the same reasons they used lab animals: complete control over the environment and surveillance of the bodies in them. Schools were where you tested and refined ideas, tech, etc. And, well...
weird menace and excessive bloodletting4this reality sucks so fucking hard
Collieflower3everything about this story is offensive lol, yeah we spent 60 grand for the sex bot turned into uuuuh a skeevy LLM prompt. kids who wants a sexy and unsettling google interface. its not sentient, doesn't understand context, can't properly diagnose and guide students, but its also creepy n costly.
Ty Duffy2How did this even get approved? So you spent nearly $60,000 in public funds...on an...AI robot...from a company that pivoted to robotics from crypto...and bought a sex doll company...
Mr. Okay Guy2"Realbotix, formerly Tokens.com ... purchased Simulacra, a Las Vegas-based company known for realistic sex dolls ... marking a pivot for the company from crypto to humanoid robots." Big titty sex doll AI teacher robots from a former crypto company, that's the full distillation of the Trump era
School/university boards/administrators seem to make decisions about "AI" in the classroom solely on hype, tech FOMO etc rather than basing them on research on pedagogy and what works for classrooms and students. The only ones benefiting are AI companies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Aparna Nair9And if you're reading the Guardian article on the company that acquired sexbot company now selling a nearly 60k "AI-enabled robots" to a primarily Native American school district, I think this thread is also essential reading, bsky.app/profile/jgca...
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)7Why does it look like a woman with maga make-up?
artisanrox (Progressive Animal)2send all these abominations to Philly 😏
slicedhand1You just KNOW that some teenage boy will get handsy. P
Naomi Saphra17the worst AI scammers always have the same backstory
Lamine’s Left Foot14My senior capstone students, many of whom are matriculating into K-12 programs once they complete undergrad, did their research projects on AI and education; all were dismayed by its use with children. One said “I want to be a teacher to teach kids, not uneducate(sp) them”
The teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Premium Steve45Really says it all they can find six figures for fleshlight robot teachers but not money for human teachers to live on
Noah Joad19*erases number from my “days without setting new dystopian low” scoreboard*
Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ13Latest update is they have decided this is a bad idea, which should have been obvious from the start.
uncharismatic minifauna8$57k for that crap?! think of all the real good that money could do. that’s wages for a real human teacher. or field trips, or student counseling, or infrastructure repairs
Samuel Thomson7The decision to give it makeup and highlights.
Issa Mar5So they can afford to waste money on a repurposed sex doll "teacher" but they can't afford to pay real teachers a decent wage? Or buy supplies? Fix up the school? Negate any "lunch debts" or other malicious nonsense? "It was discussed at the school board meeting" is an obnoxious excuse, too.
Meechy Dorko15didn't i say? i fuckin said
Lupita Nihongo8Everyone who was in a position to say ‘don’t do this’ and didn’t has to be replaced with Real Dolls.
XelArtz (TEAM COMEDY)6Horrors aside...do u really think this bucket of bolts posing as a teacher will survive a room full of children/teenagers 5 minutes tops until that thing gets utterly obliterated
Danny Lore6okay before i transferred schools i was part of the 'terrorizing folks because bored' crew and all i can think of is...you really, REALLY want to annoy students with a SEX DOLL? you think this'll go well?
tunes to make you run away5we have a pathological relationship to education in this country. absolute insane hostility to children
Rob Cruickshank5You acquire*one* sex-doll company and suddenly everyone's calling you the sex-doll acquirer.
Seacrets Enthusiast is on bsky.app4“Realbotix has denied ties to the sex doll company” dawg look at it
Okay Comrade3First article on this to significantly include the Seneca Nation's point of view:
Caz🇨🇦🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️2Why does it have Mar-a-Lago face
Rumpole of the Bayou2This is a cursed sentence
Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population
Dr. Laura Carter Robinson • Humanity&Planet3Everything about this is extraordinarily disturbing (including the Mar-a-Lago face). Kids’ socioemotional development comes from interacting with *humans*. And Native American kids should not be put through this. Instead of #AI, #fascism, and #climate change, how about we start taking care of kids?!
Nkomis3Sex toy robots in schools?
Andrew2A lot of these words should not be next to each other.
Wilson2Horrifying. You can't make this stuff up.
Brian F. Kelcey2File under a new hashtag: "dystopian ledes"
'No one here can help you, but you can talk to the creepy robot sex doll. But: no one here can help you.' This is gross, and especially for a school with a large Indigenous pop. Yes, let's tell those kids they're not even worth having a human to interact with. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
