Zohran Mamdani is trying to stop AI from rotting children’s brains.
NYC Public Schools just instituted a sweeping ban on generative AI for students through eighth grade, setting an aggressive new standard for classroom technology.
This comprehensive policy, affecting more than half a million students, will systematically strip or disable AI components from over 38 educational software programs currently in use, and schools will altogether abandon platforms where these features cannot be removed.
To reinforce this shift, teachers are also prohibited from using AI tools to grade assignments, and companion chatbots—designed to provide emotional support—are completely banned across all grade levels, including high school.
The temporary ban is born out of a desire to protect the critical development of younger minds, with city officials emphasizing that children must first learn to grapple with difficult questions on their own before relying on digital shortcuts.While younger classrooms step back from screens, older students will not be left entirely in the dark. Public high schools are introducing bi-annual AI literacy courses to teach teens about bias, ethics, and risks, alongside pilot programs utilizing highly vetted, supervised platforms. As other major school districts implement strict screen-time and cellphone limits, New York’s bold experiment could decide whether classrooms across the country embrace artificial intelligence or pull the plug.
source: Associated Press. (2026). NYC, the nation’s largest school system, bans AI for students through 8th grade.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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