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No AI until high school: NYC mayor Mamdani imposes 1 year ban on AI for schools through 8th grade (www.nyc.gov)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1377962/no-ai-until-high-school-nyc-schools-announce-major-classroom-technology-overhaul

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in schools, alongside a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students, or two-thirds of the system’s total enrollment. The policy establishes a one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, on student-facing generative AI for children in 2-K through 8th grade. It also introduces twice-yearly AI critical thinking modules for high schoolers, limited AI pilots for a small number of high school classrooms and age-appropriate screen time restrictions.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Why not at hs as well?

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I doubt you can stop a high schooler from using AI if they wanted to.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I mean you can do something's like not allowing it's use on campus.

I guess I'm seeing it as just a critical period of mental development as the years before. Its probably the thing that has me the most worried about the whole thing is the drop in any kind of thinking skills among the general population.

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I agree with you. Was just playing advocate. I do think if they ban it from HS that will impact kids way of using it, in a good way.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

:100:

I just see no way in which the injection of AI into an already crumbling education results in anything resembling "good outcomes".

You gotta learn to think. It takes time and effort and dedicated practice. And you need space, time and an environment for that.

As bad as this is for grown adults, it seems orders of magnitude worse for kids/ young adults.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

has me the most worried about the whole thing is the drop in any kind of thinking skills among the general population.

Sounds like the general population would need to use more AI.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 50 minutes ago

Thats the rub aint it.

They steal it from you then sell back a cheap imitation.

[–] firebarrage@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago (1 children)

As problematic as AI is, these students are going to live in a world where it exists. I would much rather live around people who were taught how to use it well and as a tool to aid thinking and understanding rather than a total replacement to thinking. I'm sure it will take years of refining how we teach high schoolers to live around it to get good results, but we have to start somewhere.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

I don't think the two things are compatible.