It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Here's a story you might have missed.

Earlier this month, parents, teachers, and elected officials rally to demand that mayors are on Mumdani

imposed a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in New York City public school classrooms.

They delivered a petition with more than 2,200 signatures to the mayor's senior education

advisor, first deputy mayor, Dean Fulahan, citing risks to quote, student privacy,

cognitive development, creativity, and the environment, unquote, according to the daily news.

An East Harlem parent told the reporter, the mayor has mayoral control of public schools so he can

just say, slow your horses. Now, that rally came after New York City's

Department of Education unveiled its preliminary guidelines for using AI in schools, almost three

years after a short-lived ban on chat GPT. The Department of Education began soliciting public

feedback on its preliminary guidelines,

but declared up front, quote,

the question is not whether AI belongs in schools.

The question is whether we will collectively build a system that governs AI to serve every

student and every stakeholder.

Our next guest calls that statement, quite the rhetorical

suplex opening a debate by declaring its central premise off limits. So there's one recent headline

that you may have missed here in New York City, but AI tools are not waiting for education

policy across the country to catch up.

A February Pew Research Center survey found that 60% of teenagers say students at their school

use chatbots to cheat very often or somewhat often, and parents, you may already be aware

that AI tools come pre-installed in the Google Chromebooks that many children

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