Mamdani bans AI for students up to 8th grade in NYC

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday.

The one-year moratorium — part of a broader assessment of how children in the nation’s largest school system interact with the technology — will apply to “all software that uses student-facing generative AI” for students through eighth grade, the mayor’s office said. It described the policy as the most expansive prohibition in the country.

At the same time, the city is establishing twice-yearly AI literacy classes for all public high school students. It will also launch pilot programs allowing some high school students to use a handful of AI platforms under an educator’s supervision. Companion chatbots will be prohibited across all grades, officials said.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-ai-ban-nyc-schools-647f6a968eea0399521b7934418b1aff

[IllusionLover 7,749]

It should be banned for everyone tho 

[Ladle Ghoulash 55,100]

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Ladle Ghoulash

[Murakami27 8,652]

MamBANi 

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6 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

 

Stealing this thank you

[peggyhill 2,130]

But how is that going to prevent them for using it at home, or on their devices?

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Good start

[Ayesha Erotica 1,951]

this will not stop students from submitting AI-made homework & presentations

or using AI on smartphones when teacher doesn't look

it only affects AI software at schools

[Ladle Ghoulash 55,100]

4 minutes ago, peggyhill said:

But how is that going to prevent them for using it at home, or on their devices?

There are ways of monitoring how students use AI on assignments (AI detectors, programs that monitor how the drafting process for an essay etc.), but the ban is mostly, I’d imagine, just for any kind of classroom use sanctioned by a teacher 

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6 minutes ago, peggyhill said:

But how is that going to prevent them for using it at home, or on their devices?

 

1 minute ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

There are ways of monitoring how students use AI on assignments (AI detectors, programs that monitor how the drafting process for an essay etc.), but the ban is mostly, I’d imagine, just for any kind of classroom use sanctioned by a teacher 

My guess is detectors in the schools' programs

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2 minutes ago, peggyhill said:

But how is that going to prevent them for using it at home, or on their devices?

it is not preventing them from using it outside school-owned devices,

it only affects the use of AI software and AI programs at official school PCs/tablets/laptops

it is amazing how many papers teachers receive from 5th graders these days that are already at master's level and how many kids qualify to skip high school directly to begin a doctorate