NYC’s AI Ban Isn’t the Win Mamdani Thinks It Is

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani beside a poster reading NYC AI Ban, illustrating the city's yearlong ban on AI chatbots in K-8 schools

BOTTOM LINE NYC’s yearlong ban on AI chatbots for 600,000 K-8 students is being cheered as a win for child safety, but the city’s own high school pilot already proves there’s a smarter path: chatbots built with guardrails that guide a student through the work instead of doing it for them. New York City just … Read more