... The nation's largest school district said it will begin the school year next week with a sweeping ban on AI for students in in 2-K through eighth grade.
In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for students in pre-school or 2-K through eighth grade and will spend the next year "studying the impacts of this technology."
Mamdani wrote in part, “the tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary.”
“We do not see it that way,” he added. ...
New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels said the measure will help restore the critical thinking skills students need to graduate.
“We’re standing firmly in our decision to not conflate innovation with more tech, and we’re going to lead over the next year with evidence and make sure technology serves learning -- not the other way around,” Samuels wrote in a statement. ...
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