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.
Expecting “individualized” education from a technology known for being abused in sloppy ways, for being non-deterministic to the point it’s producing NSFL content if it doesn’t have safeguards, and that hallucinates inaccurate information while being controlled by the most powerful sociopaths in the world then…
Yeah. That’s a reasonable expectation and not unsafe at all my dude. /s
Narrow minded