BREAKING: Mamdani Puts the Brakes on AI in the Classroom — And Says Children Should Learn to Think Before Machines Think for Them

New York City is drawing a line in the sand over artificial intelligence and childhood.

In a move that could reverberate far beyond the five boroughs, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a sweeping one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for children from 2-K through eighth grade.

The policy will affect nearly 600,000 public-school students, roughly two-thirds of the city’s public-school population, and is being