First Principal A tony British boarding school has recruited two AI chatbots to work as the school’s “principal headteacher” and “head of AI” to act as “servants” to its pupils. As The Telegraph reports, Cottesmore prep school headmaster and avowed AI booster Tom Rogerson said that the school’s chatbots, which are named “Abigail Bailey” and “Jamie Rainer” — both, interestingly, portrayed as people of color — were created to help him with the education management tasks on which they were trained. The Abigail Bailey chatbot, stylized as a Black woman, is the school’s new principal headteacher — basically a fancy term for vice principal — and the Jamie Rainer bot, also portrayed as someone of mixed race, was “hired” on as head of AI after Rogerson told reporters earlier this year that he wanted to recruit someone to run the school’s AI initiatives. “We need to prepare them for a life of using and living with AI and robots which have AI installed in them,” Rogerson previously told The Telegraph over the summer. He added that he wants kids to learn to make bots their “benevolent servants” — which, to be fair, does sound like exactly the kind of thing an AI-bullish British prep school headmaster would say. Empathic Tendencies In the most recent interview, the headmaster of the Sussex, England-based school said that he decided to appoint an AI to run the school’s AI systems because it was a “tall order to fulfill all of [the] remits” he was looking for…Prep School Appoints AI Chatbots to Executive Staff Roles