Resistance to AI in Education Grows as Norway Bars Under-13 Students
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Updated · The Verge · Oct 5
Resistance to AI in Education Grows as Norway Bars Under-13 Students
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Oct 5
Summary
Norway has banned essentially all AI use in school for students under 13, while Los Angeles, New York City and a major U.S. teachers’ union have also backed classroom chatbot restrictions.
The pushback centers on “cognitive delegation” — the idea that students offload effortful thinking to AI, weakening durable knowledge, judgment and the social habits that support independent reasoning.
The report argues Big Tech is accelerating that shift: OpenAI said in July 2025 that learners made up more than half of ChatGPT’s 900 million average monthly users, and Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers.
Evidence cited includes a recent China study finding thousands of students largely stopped doing homework after adopting AI, alongside broader student unease and campus protests against universities’ AI push.
The broader implication is a policy fight over whether schools should treat generative AI as a learning aid or as a technology that can erode the human cognitive systems education is meant to build.