{"id":3728,"date":"2026-09-02T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:43:32","slug":"mamdani-to-new-york-city-kids-no-ai-until-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He might be the second-youngest mayor in New York City history, but 34-year-old Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn\u2019t have AI in school, and he wants to make sure city kids don\u2019t either.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The digital-native politician, who said he doesn\u2019t use AI himself, announced on Wednesday alongside Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for children in 2-K through eighth grade, covering nearly 600,000 students in the country\u2019s largest public school system and banning companion chatbots across every grade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way,\u201d  Mamdani said at a news conference announcing the ban. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have yet to see a study showing that AI is beneficial for students in elementary and middle school, with the exception, of course, of research sponsored by the very corporations that stand to profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Hall is calling it the most expansive student-facing AI policy in the country. \u201cThe tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement announcing the policy, and at the conference, he added that the city would \u201cembrace new technology, but only when it serves our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cKids need to learn to think for themselves, they need to work alongside their peers, they need to learn how to ask better questions, and they need to learn what it feels like to not know the answer,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cThis is what learning is all about, and it is what city government is determined to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But back in April, over 250 education experts exclusively told <em>Fortune <\/em>they were calling on the mayor to instill a five-year moratorium. At the time, the city\u2019s AI guidance for schools was still the permissive \u201ctraffic light\u201d version, which sorted AI uses into barred, cautioned, and allowed categories but left student use it in a vague, use-with-caution middle tier. Leonie Haimson of the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy at the time told <em>Fortune<\/em>: \u201cHe said he himself doesn\u2019t use AI, which is good, but why is he foisting it on New York City public school students?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, the city\u2019s policy is stuck between two worlds: education advocates are asking for more, while proponents of the AI believe a moratorium even of one year will adversely affect students. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ask and the outcome<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, when that coalition of more than 250 doctors, child development experts and advocacy organizations called for a five-year moratorium on generative AI in pre-K through 12 schools, the worry was about teaching kids how to learn. \u201cWe just don\u2019t want to waste another 10 years in which our kids\u2019 education is undermined,\u201d Haimson said. \u201cIt took more than 10 years to ban cell phones from schools. We can\u2019t afford that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two months later, a majority of the City Council signed a letter asking Mamdani and Samuels to \u201cimmediately pause\u201d AI in schools for two years, citing risks to student privacy and critical thinking. Parents, teachers and artists rallied at City Hall over the summer pushing the same two-year figure. The administration landed on one year on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fairplay, a child advocacy group that led the coalition back in April, released a statement following the mayor\u2019s moratorium announcement, in which Campaign Director David Monahan called the policy \u201ca step in the right direction\u201d that nonetheless \u201craises serious concerns.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAIM has been saying all along that New York City Public Schools need a two-year pause on AI to craft the most democratic and durable policy for students and the community,\u201d Monahan said, using the coalition\u2019s own name for itself, the AI Moratorium for NYC Schools. \u201cIt\u2019s not too late to heed their call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, a DOE spokesperson told <em>Fortune<\/em>: \u201cWe know we must design educational spaces that never lose sight of original thinking or human-centered learning while advancing AI literacy safely and responsibly.\u201d This week, Samuels used nearly identical framing: \u201cWe\u2019re standing firmly in our belief that innovation does not mean more technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuels later acknowledged the March policy \u201cmissed the mark,\u201d and Wednesday\u2019s one-year moratorium replaced it, five months on.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The case against the pause<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not everyone thinks a moratorium is the right call. The most visible pushback comes from Bill Ackman, the hedge fund manager behind Pershing Square Capital Management, who has spent the past year promoting Alpha School, a private network that condenses academic instruction into two hours a day using AI tutoring software and has a campus a few blocks from City Hall. Ackman has called it \u2018the first truly breakthrough innovation in K-12 education\u2019 since KIPP Academy, arguing that classrooms \u2018haven\u2019t fundamentally changed in 200 years\u2019 while AI is transforming everything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s not alone. More than 250 CEOs\u2014including the heads of Microsoft, Adobe, Dell, AMD and IBM\u2014signed an open letter through the nonprofit CSforAll\u2019s Unlock8 campaign calling for mandatory computer science and AI education in every U.S. high school, arguing that early, universal exposure is what prevents a widening skills gap rather than causes one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the age of AI, we must prepare our children for the future\u2014to be AI creators, not just consumers,\u201d the letter states. President Trump signed a related executive order in April 2025 directing federal agencies to expand AI training grants and classroom resources for K-12 students, framing early AI literacy as a matter of economic competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That argument surfaced inside Mamdani\u2019s own announcement. Julie Samuels, president and CEO of the tech industry group Tech:NYC, was one of the outside voices quoted in the city\u2019s press release, and her praise came with a pointed caveat: citing a CBRE report showing New York now has more tech jobs than the Bay Area, she said the city should \u201cexpand this access beyond one hour per week in the future\u201d for high schoolers using AI career-readiness tools, rather than treat exposure to the technology as something to ration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the mayor addressed the city\u2019s decision to allow AI in schools\u2014but only for high schoolers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhether we like it or not, our teenagers are growing up in an AI-saturated world. We cannot pretend that that world does not exist. It would be irresponsible not to prepare our children for the fast-evolving technological future that lies ahead,\u201d Mamdani said at the conference. \u201cSo, in high school we will teach our students about AI, its opportunities and its pitfalls, its building blocks and its biases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut I want to be very clear: In no way, shape or form will AI replace student-teacher interaction,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the foundation of our students\u2019 educational experience. That will not change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also not the first time the city\u2019s own school system has made the workforce-readiness case for AI over caution. In 2023, then-Chancellor David Banks reversed an earlier ChatGPT ban, writing in a Chalkbeat op-ed that the \u201cknee-jerk fear and risk overlooked the potential of generative AI to support students and teachers\u201d and that students would enter a workforce where understanding the technology was essential. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few miles away, a different bet<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few miles from the Brooklyn school where Mamdani made the announcement is the Alpha School, a private network at 180 Maiden Lane in the Financial District, which condenses academic instruction into two hours a day using AI-driven tutoring software, then spends the rest of the school day on workshops\u2014leadership, entrepreneurship, life skills. There\u2019s no homework. Staff are called \u201cguides.\u201d Tuition runs close to $65,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alpha claims its students rank in the top 1 to 2% nationally, and as a private network, It faces no requirement to report outcome data to the state, making the claims hard to independently verify. Internal documents obtained by 404 Media earlier this year showed the network\u2019s AI-generated lesson content included poorly structured material and illogical multiple-choice questions, Futurism reported in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson from Alpha told <em>Fortune <\/em>that Alpha\u2019s AI-powered learning platform was built with input from learning scientists, including Carl Hendrick, a King\u2019s College London PhD who has published on evidence-based teaching methods. Alpha\u2019s model compresses two hours of AI-driven instruction into the morning, well above the 98-minute daily average U.S. students spend on school-issued devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Mamdani #York #City #kids #high #school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He might be the second-younges&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[828,3475,3109,880,2764,3329,1698,736,2688,2488,4631,1401,738],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-ai-agents","tag-city","tag-education","tag-high","tag-kids","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-students","tag-york","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He might be the second-younges&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Finance News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg?w=2048\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u4f5c\u8005\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"\u9884\u8ba1\u9605\u8bfb\u65f6\u95f4\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 \u5206\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e\"},\"headline\":\"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728\"},\"wordCount\":1409,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AI agents\",\"city\",\"Education\",\"high\",\"kids\",\"Mamdani\",\"New York\",\"New York City\",\"school\",\"Schools\",\"students\",\"York\",\"Zohran Mamdani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Finance News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"zh-Hans\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728\",\"name\":\"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"zh-Hans\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"zh-Hans\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?p=3728#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"\u9996\u9875\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/\",\"name\":\"Finance News\",\"description\":\"Just another Finance News site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"zh-Hans\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.vaultinsider.top\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728","og_locale":"zh_CN","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News","og_description":"He might be the second-younges&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728","og_site_name":"Finance News","article_published_time":"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg?w=2048","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"\u4f5c\u8005":"admin","\u9884\u8ba1\u9605\u8bfb\u65f6\u95f4":"7 \u5206"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/#\/schema\/person\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e"},"headline":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school","datePublished":"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728"},"wordCount":1409,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg","keywords":["AI agents","city","Education","high","kids","Mamdani","New York","New York City","school","Schools","students","York","Zohran Mamdani"],"articleSection":["Finance News"],"inLanguage":"zh-Hans","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728","url":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728","name":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school - Finance News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg","datePublished":"2026-09-02T17:43:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/#\/schema\/person\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"zh-Hans","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"zh-Hans","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2250628514-e1788365495317.jpg","width":1200,"height":600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3728#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u9996\u9875","item":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mamdani to New York City kids: No AI until high school"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/","name":"Finance News","description":"Just another Finance News site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"zh-Hans"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/#\/schema\/person\/ed40724a3e5d482ce66781a042c3c31e","name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}