{"id":2407,"date":"2026-02-26T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-peace-corps-is-recruiting-volunteers-to-sell-ai-to-developing-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:45:00","slug":"the-peace-corps-is-recruiting-volunteers-to-sell-ai-to-developing-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-peace-corps-is-recruiting-volunteers-to-sell-ai-to-developing-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Corps is recruiting volunteers to sell AI to developing nations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For more than six decades, the Peace Corps has represented itself as an agency focused on helping underserved communities around the globe. But a new initiative, called the \u00ab\u00a0Tech Corps,\u00a0\u00bb threatens to unravel the agency’s original mission by recruiting de facto Silicon Valley salespeople to promote the biggest names in AI – many of which have ties to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Established by President John F. Kennedy<\/a> in 1961, the Peace Corps recruited skilled Americans interested in assisting developing countries in industries like education, healthcare, and agriculture. As noted by the Brookings Institution<\/a>, the agency was created to \u00ab\u00a0win the \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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