Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a ban on artificial intelligence in Big Apple schools for the upcoming school year — with Hizzoner boasting the prohibition is the “broadest” in the country.
The mayor said a full moratorium on the use of generative AI would be in effect for kids in the new 2-year-old “2K” childcare program up through eighth grade, but there would be an exemption for some pilot programs open for high schoolers.
The restriction will affect 600,000 children as classes start next week while 50,000 high school students will have access to five limited pilot programs with established screentime maximums.
“It does not matter how profitable a product is if it doesn’t help our students learn and grow,” Mamdani railed at Brooklyn STEAM Center, a technology and manufacturing focused vocational school.
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