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 Yarm13JK, me and my friends would've just drawn mean comics about the humanoid robot high school teacher.
jadedragon2.bsky.social10Horrible!! 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 Resistance9My 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 Squirrels7This 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."
DogDadBod4Wouldn't that have disrupted all the others trying to fuck it?
Wraithe4I’m assuming that the robot is insured for an incredible amount of money, and this is all just a plot to collect on that after the kids destroy it
John Holbo10Me and my friends would have rented a VHS tape from Blockbuster, and ordered Dominos pizza, to watch a teen comedy about a union-busting school board that hires a former sex doll as a robo-teacher from a shadowy company gathering data on students for sinister purposes unknown.
Sasquatch McGillicuddy2I don't care how many times I see this meme, it's true and funny every time.
‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school
Jeffy 🌿43They 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)20Why 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???
paolina2018.bsky.social19"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.
Marilyn Tatman15It'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.
Quidam10That robot would be covered in spit balls within the first hour.
Sir Richard Mountbasket🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️7Looking at the article, the robot pictured is NOT the robot being used in the school. Although all pictures of their robots look equally creepy.
Ryan Marino, MD242Not to be too reactionary but the person who spent $60K on a freaky sex doll that they thought would be a good idea to put in front of high-schoolers should never work in education again
Conor93Have these freaks ever met teenagers before? This fucking thing will be dismantled within the first 10 minutes
Jesse Hawken88Black Mirror-ass idea: repurposed sex dolls being sent to teach at schools in fascist theocracy
Blue Heron Farm83High school boys will absolutely be putting their penises in that mouth
Doctora Malka Older81why is the teacher robot wearing eyeliner
Medium Dave25I first saw this referred to in a post by @older.bsky.social, and had to click through a couple levels deep to find the article, and when I saw the preview pic I gasped. There are so many things wrong with this plan, but “blond sexbot teaching Native American kids” is up there.
Joe Streckert24Me and my friends would have killed this thing with hammers, I can tell you that much.
JayIsPainting 🍁23I do not forsee a future for this abomination
Samira Ahmed15This is appalling on so many levels. Teachers and parents and students should be protesting very loudly against this to ensure this robot/ai is not brought into the school. The school board spent 58k on this robot. Last year's starting teacher salary in Salamanca, NY was $49k.
CappleRoxy 🍎13Misogyny is so normalized that they thought that this was OK.
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 Steve120Really says it all they can find six figures for fleshlight robot teachers but not money for human teachers to live on
Noah Joad53*erases number from my “days without setting new dystopian low” scoreboard*
Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ50Latest update is they have decided this is a bad idea, which should have been obvious from the start.
Issa Mar34So 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.
uncharismatic minifauna22$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
Mil Lion19A crypto company bought a sex doll company in order to make this … ok.
A lot of kids was busting rhymes but they had no taste102"What if we took Dangerous Minds & M3gan and put it together?" Anyway the fact the robot bodies are built on sex doll tech and this is an excuse to stop paying teachers while hypersurveilling marginalized students is 800 warning signs already but they're going to do it regardless.
Lupita Nihongo64Everyone who was in a position to say ‘don’t do this’ and didn’t has to be replaced with Real Dolls.
Zach Everson57Hardly the main issue but why Mar-a-Lago face?
Anna Orridge25I was in a fun pub conversation recently with some teachers and we were swapping stories of our experiences with 13-15 yo's in the classroom. Let's just say that the extent to which this will not work cannot be possibly be overstated.
Vivian Moira Valentine19"Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population" And ain't that America?
Georgina Kiersten 18What in the black mirror is this shit?
Tiffany Morris15This is specifically cognitive imperialism, a concept named by L’nu professor Dr. Marie Battiste, used against Indigenous learners. As usual we are the test subjects. What you accept for us is coming for you.
ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽11This 👇 is why school board elections matter. The school district spent over $57,000 tax dollars on this garbage. 😡
Oisín McGann8‘Realbotix, formerly Tokens-dot-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.’ 40% of the students are Native American. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Bouba's Delivery Service8Well, *I* think it's disgraceful that they're shaming this poor robot teacher for her sex-worker past.
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 Nair12And 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)9Why does it look like a woman with maga make-up?
artisanrox (Progressive Animal)3send all these abominations to Philly 😏
slicedhand1You just KNOW that some teenage boy will get handsy. P
Naomi Saphra24the worst AI scammers always have the same backstory
Lamine’s Left Foot20My 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”
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, MD13They 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 Pak165GOOD. 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?!?!
Celia3In middle school I would prank local businesses by mailing them letters with insane pitches. One pitch was for a robot teacher with a TV head that could replace human teachers and play VCRs. The principal politely told me to go fuck myself straight off — no backlash needed.
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
I, for one, welcome [checks notes] our new repurposed sex dolls in to our children’s schools to teach them about [checks notes again] the inevitability of a total robot victory in the forthcoming war against the fleshy masters.
Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population
pammageddon.bsky.social1This isn’t about education. This is about oligarchs normalizing robots to sell robots. Just as normalizing AI is about profits, regardless of of harm.
Marilyn Tatman1A robot isn't under the same ethics requirements as I am; it can discuss sex, drugs, politics, even encourage such topics and doesn't suffer the consequences of a loss of job, license, security, tenure. Also doesn't collect a paycheck or pension.
Dr. Laura Carter Robinson • Humanity&Planet7Everything 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?!
Brian F. Kelcey4File under a new hashtag: "dystopian ledes"
Andrew3A lot of these words should not be next to each other.
Nkomis3Sex toy robots in schools?
Wilson2Horrifying. You can't make this stuff up.
AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del2WTF is wrong with the Cattaraugus county school district? Someone is surely getting kickbacks for this.
www.newyorkupstate.com/schools/2026... As it happens, yes, it's not happening. Also, yes, that is the sex doll company.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli21Thanks for the update! Shout out to the state department of education bureaucrats and the community! Sadly, looks like they disabled comments. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Warcabbit13Interestingly, that 'robot' would be articulated on the upper torso only. Which means that it is essentially useless as a teaching assistant, for general TA jobs. It is a chatbot, that can gesture.
Megan Noel3This is a bad idea. If they want to send robots make it R2D2 & C-3PO.
Coyote ^.^ ΘΔ50Latest update is they have decided this is a bad idea, which should have been obvious from the start.
Kimi Hughes12They paused implementing this, but let me be clear: this was not for the general classroom. I can almost guarantee that admin are drooling at using these things for intervention and services for disabled students. It will hurt our most vulnerable students and save lots of money. ⬇️
Katie2I'm still gonna be a huge problem about this! but this is a huge relief for now. bsky.app/profile/warc...
'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...
