New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that public schools will impose a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for younger students, covering preschool through grade 8 for the upcoming school year. Multiple outlets report the restrictions include “all software” that uses student-facing generative AI and prohibit companion chatbots.

The policy is paired with new rules for older students. Outlets say high school students will receive AI literacy instruction and limited, supervised pilot access for specific purposes, rather than a broad ban. Teachers are allowed to use AI for classroom and administrative functions such as lesson planning and tasks like translation.

Several reports also mention the city is considering or recommending screen-time limits for students and conducting a broader review of technology tools used across the school system. While some coverage emphasizes the ban’s scope and its effect on roughly 600,000 students, other accounts focus on the complementary approach for high schoolers and the broader effort to set guardrails around AI use.