Melania Trump praises winners of childhood AI competition : ‘You are our future’

First lady Melania Trump hosted an awards ceremony Tuesday for the K-12 winners of a national artificial intelligence competition, telling the crowd, “You are our future.”

“AI inspires,” she told an audience in the White House East Room.

“Use this chapter of your life to seal away with your dreams. Dreams, to continue to build boldly and importantly to safeguard America’s leading position in the world of technology.”

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First lady Melania Trump posing with some of the winners of the inaugural Presidential AI Challenge National Champion Awards. REUTERS

About 20,000 contestants entered ideas for using AI for healthcare, nutrition, public safety and other applications.