Generative AI has been suspended by New York City’s schools.
The city’s Department of Education imposed a one-year moratorium on the use of AI by students in elementary and middle school classrooms, officials said on Wednesday.
High school students, meanwhile, will take two “AI literacy courses” each year and will have access to AI programs in specific educational contexts, said the city’s schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels.
“The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference in Brooklyn. “We do not see it that way.”
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