New York City, Los Angeles Schools Ban AI Use for K-12 Students as Backlash Spreads
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Updated · The Verge · Sep 10
New York City, Los Angeles Schools Ban AI Use for K-12 Students as Backlash Spreads
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Sep 10
Summary
New York City barred elementary and middle school students from using AI in classrooms for the coming school year, and Los Angeles followed a day later with a broader restriction that also covers high schoolers.
The bans reflect rising concern that AI companies are repeating Big Tech’s earlier playbook in schools—offering curriculum and tools that shape teaching while turning students into future users and customers.
Natasha Singer’s new book traces how Apple, Microsoft and Google embedded products into classrooms over the past 15 years, from AP computer science materials to Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
That earlier push drew limited resistance at first, but skepticism has grown as research questions whether more classroom technology improves learning and some graduates say coding promises did not translate into jobs.
Parents and teachers are now mounting a broader grassroots push against more screens and AI in schools, signaling tougher scrutiny than the coding-education boom faced in the 2010s.