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Los Angeles Unified School District recently announced it will bar student use of generative artificial intelligence on school devices for the 2026-27 academic year, joining New York City Public Schools in limiting children’s access to a technology no one yet knows how to safely manage.
The nation’s two largest school districts made the move at a pivotal moment in the technology’s evolution. Last week, a former engineer for OpenAI and Anthropic warned that AI’s chief architects “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
It’s been less than four years since the public debut of ChatGPT, the first widely adopted generative AI platform. Given the relative novelty of publicly-accessible generative AI platforms, the total body of research studies investigating their effect on children’s cognitive development is fairly small.
Featured expert commentary from Technion Prof. Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus discusses a recent study suggesting that young children may engage differently with AI tools than adults, underscoring the need for further research and thoughtful guardrails around their use.