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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’

Paresh Dave

created: July 8, 2025, 11:30 a.m. | updated: July 9, 2025, 11:48 p.m.

Microsoft and OpenAI announced on Tuesday that they are helping to launch an AI training center for members of the second-largest teachers’ union in the US. Schools have struggled over the past few years to keep pace with students’ adoption of AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Google’s Gemini. Just last week, several professors in the Netherlands published an open letter calling for local universities to reconsider financial relationships with AI companies and ban AI use in the classroom. All-out bans appear unlikely amid the growing usage of generative AI chatbots. So AI companies, employers, and labor unions may be left to try to find some common ground.

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