New York City will ban AI tools for roughly 600,000 public school students through eighth grade starting with the new school year, the Department of Education announced. Companion chatbots are banned at all grade levels, and screens are off-limits through third grade. Teachers may use AI for lesson prep but not grading. Mayor Zohran Mamdani told the New York Times the city rejects framing AI education as inevitable. A task force report due April 2027 will guide future policy.
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