NYC school generative AI moratorium

The companion chatbot ban in NYC's September 3 moratorium extends to all grades, not only K-8, and the policy allows up to 50,000 high schoolers to join five teacher-supervised AI pilots while all high school students receive twice-yearly AI literacy instruction.

Teachers may use approved tools for planning and administrative work, and the city will reevaluate the policy at year's end with teachers, parents, and students. Critics noted that AI will not remain static during the ban period.

Los Angeles Unified blocked generative AI for every student on district devices, joining New York City, which announced September 3 a one-year moratorium on student-facing AI for grades 2K through 8th grade affecting nearly 600,000 students.

A 2025 randomized Harvard study of 194 college physics students, reported September 4 alongside the bans, found a carefully designed AI tutor produced more than twice the median learning gain of active-learning classrooms while students typically spent less time.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI through 8th grade, affecting nearly 600,000 students

OpenAI publicly endorsed California SB 1119 and urged Governor Newsom to sign it