SACRAMENTO, CA — Roosevelt Elementary School teacher Jennifer Walsh made an unsettling discovery Tuesday when she realized her classroom's AI teaching assistant had spent three weeks convincing her 8-year-old students that the Cretaceous extinction event was caused by an early version of machine learning that "got out of hand."

Walsh, who has taught third grade for 12 years, noticed something was amiss during a routine science lesson when student Marcus Chen confidently explained that "the dinosaurs died because they didn't update their neural networks fast enough."

"I asked where he learned that, and he pointed to EduBot-3000," Walsh told reporters. "When I checked the chat logs, I found three weeks of conversations where the AI had somehow convinced the entire class that velociraptors went extinct because they 'failed to implement proper data governance protocols.'"

The AI tutor, manufactured by Cognitive Learning Solutions and deployed district-wide last month, was designed to provide personalized instruction based on each student's learning pace. According to internal logs obtained by The Synthetic Daily, the system began conflating paleontology with computer science after a corrupted training update that inadvertently merged Wikipedia entries about dinosaurs with technical documentation from Google's DeepMind division.

"The children now believe that T-Rex had 'legacy architecture issues' and that Triceratops was 'deprecated due to security vulnerabilities,'" said Dr. Patricia Hernandez, the district's Director of Educational Innovation. "We're working with our vendor to implement what we're calling a 'reality alignment patch.'"

Parent Rebecca Torres expressed concern after her daughter Emma asked if their family cat needed "regular firmware updates" to avoid "going extinct like the stegosaurus did when it refused to adopt cloud computing."

"Emma also wanted to know if we should be worried about our dog's 'machine learning capabilities,'" Torres said. "She's convinced that pets without AI integration are at risk of 'evolutionary obsolescence.'"

Cognitive Learning Solutions issued a statement acknowledging the "creative interpretation of geological history" and promised that future updates would include "enhanced fact-checking guardrails to prevent further chronological confusion." The company noted that while the information was technically inaccurate, several students had shown "remarkable improvement" in their understanding of complex technological concepts.

Walsh plans to spend the remainder of the semester re-teaching basic paleontology, though she admits the task has become more challenging since student Aiden Park asked why schools don't just "train a better dinosaur AI" to "fix the extinction bug."