AI Moratorium for NYC Schools

Like war, AI is unhealthy for living things.

Maybe we should keep it away from kids then?

"If Microsoft is going to continue working with ICE, teachers are rightfully concerned about using Microsoft's AI tools in the classroom while their students are being deported. But Microsoft refuses to answer to them."
Mayor Mamdani, we need AI out of schools now.
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@mayor.nyc.gov This is what Rep Summer Lee is saying. We need AI out of schools--now. ICE is using data from AI-based school surveillance to aid and abet their mass deportation efforts. 1/2

A.I. in New York Schools: What Lies Ahead?

Tell Mayor Mamdani - the only approach is a moratorium on AI. "some of the promises that A.I. companies have been making and the speed at which some districts have been adopting products, one thing I heard is A.I. is such a consequential issue that it’s important for the mayor to be involved."

States weigh limits, outright bans on ed tech in schools Momentum appears to be growing against any screen time in schools as states like Tennessee and Kansas propose prohibiting ed tech for grades K-5.

NYC could be a leader here - www.k12dive.com/news/states-...

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Our Lethal Week in AI Friends, It’s been a heck of a week. I want to start by reminding you, as my brilliant friend Christiana Zenner says in all conversations about AI, “no is a...

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I know - teachers as laborers who need protections too!

New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.

The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

The AI race shouldn’t come at the cost of safety. Anthropic’s walk back from core safety measures is dangerous & not at all aligned with “public accountability.”

We need strong, enforceable AI regulations that protect people, not internal promises that change with market shifts.

Draft press release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/5/26 Contact: more@morecaucusnyc.org MORE-UFT, AIM Coalition Demand AFT, UFT and NYC Schools Sever Relationship with Open AI In the wake of Open AI’s contract w...

MORE/UFT, a member of our coalition, on fire w/ this press release: @moreuft.bsky.social

"In the wake of Open AI’s contract with the Trump Dept. of War to Surveil Americans and wage illegal, reckless war, educators, parents, advocates call on AFT & NYC Schools to end relationship with the company"

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

This is the chatbot they want in public schools.

What this article misses is any mention of a) the massive amounts of money wagered on betting big; b) a student's perspective on being guinea pigs to this tech, and c) how teachers feel about being surveilled instead of treated as professionals.

U.S. Schools Are Betting Big on A.I. Will New York City Be Next?

Our coalition is featured in this NY Times article, which makes clear that the only arguments in favor of AI in school are big tech money and "inevitability." Our kids deserve better.

Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...

Experimenting on public achool kids with artificial intelligence is not ok.
Everyone please sign this from @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social then share widely with parents, teachers and NYers: bit.ly/AIMNYC

This is a flyer inviting people to join us for a rally for a moratorium on AI in NYC public schools - March 14, 1030 am, MLK Jr. Educational Campus.

"All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found....The most important thing that developers can learn is that guard rails are easily circumvented."

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

There's no such thing as guardrails on this stuff! www.nature.com/articles/d41...