Doctors and education experts call for a 5-year AI moratorium in schools

That's never ever gonna happen. The cat is out of the bag, the horse has left the barn. Instead, they should be working on ways to integrate AI. Calling for an impossible ban is just intellectual laziness.

I agree that students shouldn't be allowed to use AI, at least for "thinking" assignments—because that is a waste of their learning time. This is similar to how they shouldn't be allowed to copy or plagiarize or have their parents do their assignments. School is fundamentally different from work. Work is about getting stuff done, and AI helps with that, so it should be used. School is about learning, which often uses "getting stuff done" as an interface, but don't mistake the output for the goal. The purpose of school is not whatever slop the kids output; it is the skills they learn, and LLMs doing assignments for you undercuts that.

>There is no proven educational benefit to generative AI in schools

Yeah, while LLMs can help you learn something if you prompt it, they can also just do the work for you, which is what most kids would choose if given unrestricted access.

>The group, made up of mental health experts, parents, educators, and organizations geared toward protecting children online

I thought that I disagreed with this article because of some iffy framings, like when it compared AI access for kids to pharmaceuticals, and these types of people are ruining the internet, but overall I agree with the thesis.