NYC Schools Are Putting AI in Time-Out
Forget the future; the biggest school district in the country just decided the future is grounded until high school.
NYC is officially pulling the plug on AI for elementary and middle schoolers. Mayor Zohran Mamdani clearly isn't buying the hype that AI is a classroom necessity, so he's hitting the pause button for the next year.
While high schoolers might still get a pass under specific rules, the little ones are going back to pens, paper, and actual brain power. The city is even trying to cap screen time at 45 minutes a day, basically declaring war on the digital age. They’re calling it a research moratorium, but it looks a lot like a 'go outside and touch grass' mandate.
Exemptions exist for kids with disabilities and specific coding programs, but for everyone else, the robots are officially banned.
It turns out the only way to save the next generation from algorithms is to unplug the wall.
Source: New York Times
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