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Panic drove NYC and LA to ban school AI — and that’s a big mistake

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There are two ways for America’s schools to get artificial intelligence wrong.

One is to hand a child a chatbot and let it do all the thinking — and the other is to ban AI and pretend it doesn’t exist.

New York and Los Angeles have both chosen the second option.

That means they’re setting their students up to get the first.

Americans are split when it comes to AI, as evidenced by the debate that raged last week.

When the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI urged AI companies to slow development down, President Donald Trump dubbed their alarm bell a “sick conspiracy” — and skeptics saw self-interest behind both warnings.

Silicon Valley’s AI accelerationists fighting back against ‘doomer mind virus’ taking over big labs

100ft megathrust tsunami threat hiding off the West Coast — shown in staggering simulation

DOT debuts AI-powered ‘SMART’ air traffic system to dramatically reduce flight delays, cancellations

Mayor Zohran Mamdani faulted Trump for what he called a “very flip response” to AI companies’ talk of “the end of humanity,” and the New York City Council has called for an all-member hearing to question AI companies about the dangers.

The nation is somewhere in between: A Politico poll this month found that 48% want to pause the development of advanced........

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