America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums
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September 05, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (9 comments)
sejje
The good news is, this won't do anything to stop the kids.
Aboutplants
I’m sure there are really unique and great ways to utilize AI in the educational setting, however, young children should not be the Guinea pigs. Prove that certain things are beneficial, not just think they are, and then implement with oversight. People need to stop overthinking everything and just take one step at a time, evaluate and then take another step.
nstents
I would think that AI is a great fit for Marx's goal of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", and as such a Socialist mayor would promote its use it to advance towards Socialist goals. Note: would, not should. Is AI not in an important way from humanity's abilities, and is it not being used to help meet our needs?
amazingamazing
Speaking of moratoriums, they also banned phone use. I am curious how that is going. No AI seems like it could be reasonable.
toofy
i don’t mind this at all. tbh im fatigued of the general public being beta testers for companies.
somewhereoutth
and I suppose the rest of us will have to wait until the grim laws of finance do their work before our own sweet release.
whatsThisBtn4
Ban calculators moment. In my master's they gave me anything I wanted, laptop, internet, whatever. Gave 2 stupid hard problems. That's the future.
api
I use AI a lot and find it fascinating and probably the most exciting thing since discovering the web. I’m not sure I disagree with this. Schools need to figure out how to integrate it well in a way that both helps kids learn and teaches them how to use this new tool productively. I don’t think that’s been done yet. It’s not a bad idea to just keep it out until we figure it out, or there’s a risk of just slathering AI all over everything mindlessly. At the very least it could be a giant waste of money. Schools don’t need to be spending their often limited funds thrashing around or chasing fads. The ban should be lifted once educators figure out what to do with this stuff.
ChrisArchitect
Related: New York City Bans A.I. in Elementary and Middle Schools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542443