Tragic: Against so much effort they undertook in the past few decades toward building autonomy and self-determination, the US Peace Corps regresses to techno-colonialist high-pressure American AI salespeople.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260226045504/https://www.theverge.com/policy/884625/peace-corps-tech-promote-american-ai

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✧ Alan Kent Haruf ✧

Alan Kent Haruf (1943–2014) was an American writer born and raised in Colorado. He wrote six novels and several short stories set on the High Plains. As a young man Haruf enrolled in the Peace Corps in lieu of military service before receiving a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He initially struggled to establish a career as a writer. Haruf spent years ...

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Peace Corps is getting a new shiny collar: Tech Corps. According to the announcement, STEM/AI folks can do 12–27 month in-person assignments (or virtual placements) in countries tied to the American AI Exports Program, created last year by a Trump executive order. Service… or market share? 😼

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/21/2140216/americas-peace-corps-announces-tech-corps-volunteers-to-help-bring-ai-to-foreign-countries

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Rest of World: U.S. plans Peace Corps-style “Tech Corps” to counter China’s AI exports. “The U.S. government is planning to send ‘Tech Corps’ volunteers abroad to promote the adoption of American artificial intelligence, as Washington competes with China for global AI dominance. The program was announced on Friday, as part of the Peace Corps, a decades-old program that sends volunteers […]

Peace Corps/Madagascar has it's first ever Malagasy-American volunteer.

I try to make the Peace Corps swearing-in ceremonies, but I missed this one.

via xitter @orangeactu

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