NYC to Pause AI Use for Young Students for a Year

New York City plans to impose a one-year pause on AI use in classrooms for students until high school, restrict devices for preschool through 2nd grade, and place laptop time limits for 3rd–8th graders, while allowing teachers to use AI for tasks like lesson planning but not for grading or crisis management; the policy, to be announced by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, aims to safeguard human connection and creativity and would affect roughly 600,000 younger learners.