Snopes confirmed that McMahon began by referring correctly to “AI development,” but in the same response, twice said “A1 teaching,” clearly meaning artificial intelligence. Not steak sauce. Multiple outlets including Gizmodo, Newser, Yahoo News, Mediaite, and Cybernews all reported the slip-up as genuine: she erroneously said “A1” when she meant “AI”.
She was the chair of the board of the America First Policy Institute. She's not talking about AI, she's talking about pumping ultra-nationalist, Nazi-adjacent propaganda into Red state education.