TODAY NY Bans AI Through 8th Grade
THINK FOR YOURSELF: In a growing challenge to technology in schools, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s public school system banned the use of artificial intelligence in elementary and middle school instruction for at least one year. The ban will applies to “all software that uses student-facing generative AI” for students through eighth grade.
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Chatbots will be prohibited across all grades, but the city will also establish twice-yearly AI literacy classes for public high school students.
Mamdani said at a press conference; “The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way. I have yet to see a study showing that AI is beneficial for students in elementary...
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It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
