NYC schools confirm sweeping AI ban through middle school, ABC News reports
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-03
ABC News confirms New York City Public Schools, the nation's largest district, will ban AI for students in 2-K through 8th grade starting this school year.
- Mayor Mamdani announced a moratorium on generative AI for young students, spending the year studying its impacts, saying the tech industry wants us to believe AI-powered early education is inevitable and necessary — "we do not see it that way"
- The moratorium eliminates student-facing AI software and companion chatbots
- High schoolers are exempt; the district will offer twice-yearly AI literacy classes
- The district already has a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and is urging relationship-building without generative AI
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