New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow

Another school district has banned AI from being used in the classroom by students across all grades. While this isn’t the first ban of its kind that we’ve seen, what’s interesting is that it was introduced just weeks after the district started piloting Google Gemini for older students. Frederick County became the latest school district to ban AI use in the classroom this week, voting 6-1 to restrict the technology from pre-K through 12th grade. Initially, the board considered only banning AI for younger students, but eventually extended the ban through high school.

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      I can’t see that comment, I probably blocked them or something.

      You’re certainly welcome to your own opinion

      Why golly thanks

      It would give the student a chance to see how rational sounding output can be factually wrong. It would teach students to evaluate the statements individually and tease out logical fallacies or even outright manufactured falsehoods.

      How? By asking their chatbot to verify each statement? School is a place for facts and trusted sources; I don’t see any convincing reason to change that.

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        I mean to be fair half of what they teach in American history class is just utter bullshit anyway so AI ain’t doing no harm there. “The pilgrims and the native americans were super nice friends and nothing bad ever happened.” “Thomas Jefferson might have had slaves, but he was like really nice to them.”

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        You’re certainly welcome to your own opinion

        Why golly thanks

        Sure thing, friend.

        How? By asking their chatbot to verify each statement?

        Wow, you’re really failing on the reading comprehension tonight. This is explained in the immediately proceeding sentence to the one you quoted of mine which you either skipped or did not comprehend. That sentence is “even those with only a little bit of knowledge”. The student wouldn’t have to ask a chatbot. The student would already know enough domain knowledge of the example topic to know the LLM output is wrong.

        I’m not sure whats up with your abrasiveness tonight, but I’m not interested in it. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Have a nice night.

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          Abrasive? I think you’re extremely thin skinned. I called your reading comprehension ass and you already admitted it was ass, let’s move on.

          The student would already know enough domain knowledge of the example topic to know the LLM output is wrong.

          This would immediately fail for any factual question though, like, “what is the currency used in Japan?” If the chatbot responds “yuan”, the only domain knowledge that would allow you to see that as bullshit is the actual currency used in Japan, but in which case, why ask?