California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif. Gavin has responded to Melania Trump's vision of AI-powered robot teachers at a White House education summit, stating that such systems could deliver highly personalized instruction and help students develop critical thinking and independent reasoning skills. The idea was met with criticism from Newsom's office, which responded with a terse response. A research paper by Michael Gerlich found that frequent reliance on AI tools may weaken critical-thinking abilities due to cognitive offloading.