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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a big job! If someone were to write a check tomorrow, one of the first things that needs to happen is to pay a team to develop a critical AI literacy curricula. If you know any rich donors send them our way!!

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ParentsResist.Tech @parentsresist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute's risk assessment of ChatGPT for Teens is out today, with a failing grade of "Unacceptable Risk." institute.commonsensemedia.org/sites/defaul...

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But I was told this would take all of our jobs.

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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

High school kids in Vancouver, WA, walked out over AI. An organizer: > I don’t think it’s fair that teachers get to use AI in lesson planning and grading and that students can’t use it for anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yR...

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Washington students stage walkout over lack of AI guidelines for the classroom

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're at over 200 signatures in less than 24 hours! Help us get to 1000? actionnetwork.org/events/rally... @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com @gregpak.net

A spooky picture that says "think testing AI on kids is creepy? Tell the mayor and chancellor: No AI Product Testing in NYC High Schools!" And a tombstone that says RIP privacy, thinking, the planet.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Parents in Boston are fighting back! We can help!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"There are other lessons, just as insidious, just as damaging: students do not see their writing as valuable, important work. They are trained to not believe that what they are doing -- thinking, researching, writing -- is worthy of legal protection; is worthy of the effort," writes Audrey Watters.

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The House that TurnItIn Built

I gave this talk this afternoon at Concordia University, as part of the SkepTech series questioning education technology. Today's bird, which does not appear anywhere in the talk, is the house sparro...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no AI literacy - only how to stop worrying and love the tech.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join us on October 24, 11-2 at the People's Forum for a discussion of Building Just Futures: Community Strategies to Defeat AI Injustice in Schools featuring Clarence Okoh and organizers from across the city. Lunch is provided! @clarenceokoh.bsky.social, @drkysr.bsky.social

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Building Just Futures: Community Strategies to Defeat AI Injustice in Schools

Join us for two panels about civil rights and education in the age of AI. Lunch will be served!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are launching a petition tomorrow A stay tuned! There are 5 pilots they’ve approved to test on up to 50,000 kids without their consent. It’s wild.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: New York City is rolling out pilots to product test AI on high school students, and NO STUDENT WE TALK TO knows anything about it - it's almost like the model also depends on students not finding out. If this is so great, why the cloak of secrecy??

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Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NYC City Council marathon hearing on AI is still going, and the main thing you need to know that is AI is driving fossil fuel expansion at the exact moment we need to end fossil fuels to mitigate climate catastrophe.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Friends! We have an ask Read @gregpak.net's account of these bonkers city council hearings-cum-advertisement for big tech, and then submit testimony calling for rigorous regulation and a FULL moratorium on AI in NYC public schools. Link at the bottom.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@rweingarten.bsky.social this is what real teachers think about AI as a “thought partner.”

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

they're gonna use heroin outside of school, so let's just make sure they know how to do it safely here!

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“We learned nothing from social media,” said Nataliya Kosmyna, a visiting researcher at Google with a doctorate in human-computer interactions….Kosmyna believes based on her brain research that AI, like alcohol, should be restricted to ages 21 and over”

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Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the words of SBS founder @lbyock.bsky.social: "What is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud to be a designated spokesperson for the anti-AI humanist movement in this excellent @newyorker.com piece. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Paragraph from linked New Yorker article reads: This is not A.I. populism, as Sun describes it, so much as anti-A.I. humanism; its champions worry about what would be left if human pursuits became pointless. I was struck by how many A.I. skeptics converged on the same formulation: what is this activity for? When I called Lila Byock, a mother of two and the founder of Schools Beyond Screens, a coalition fighting the influence of big tech in schools, she said, “I think that we just need to ask ourselves, like, what is school for? What is education for? One of the really basic problems with using A.I. in education is that it is designed to make tasks easier and to reduce friction, and friction is how learning happens.”

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are the most popular position in the country right now. Pause AI development, don't experiment on our kids.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our kids can spell United States without AI or SI

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😂 😂 we love all our boroughs the same, just some are a little more special than others.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I guess we are changing our name to the SIM coalition???

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have an ask! Can you email the Panel on Educational Policy and ask them to vote against the evil Oracle contract and to push back on high school pilots? Can you do it today? Can you tell your friends? We have a toolkit here with all you need! 🔥 @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fox Poll: 76% support AI ban in K-8 classrooms! Let's make it permanent, shall we, NYCPS?

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

File our whole movement under, "even the NYT thinks it might just be crazy enough to work..." (www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...)

Worth a try? Going lower tech
In some cases, there was little empirical evidence that an idea was academically effective, at least not yet. But experts believed that it could work. In cases where the idea was also not expensive, they saw few downsides to trying it.
Going lower tech - limiting screen time in school; restricting A.I. in the classroom, especially for younger students; and banning cellphones - fell in this category.
Ideas worth a try
INTERVENTION
1. Screen time limits v
2. Restrict A.l. use v
3. Ban cellphones v
4. Require full books v
5. Student attendance data v
Top five most cost-effective interventions ranked below average for cost.
EFFECT
3.9
3.9
3.7
3.4
4.0
EXPAND ALL
COST
1.6
1.7
1.7
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Data point on what's possible

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is digital black face is what they want to replace public schools. Tell them no.

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fun fact: they scheduled the PEP meeting at the exact same time as curriculum night across the city—so they can vote on it with no parents or teachers there. That should make you mad!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.

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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Real journalists don’t do free PR for tech bros

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