Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools

As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, privacy, and overall educational experience.

Research has shown that generative AI products can undermine children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Some schools have introduced these products to students without parental consent, threatening the integrity of learning and student privacy.

Call For Five-Year Pause
The widespread rollout of generative AI products into schools without oversight, community input, or evaluation of implications is not inevitable.

A five-year pause on all products using generative AI that impact children in preK-12 schools would allow time for school communities, including students, educators, administrators, and parents, to learn about the implications and uses of generative AI products in education, to ask questions, and to provide feedback.

This pause would also allow state, provincial, and local legislatures and boards of education, and state, provincial, and federal regulators to establish clear safeguards to protect student privacy, audits, and vetting processes for current and future generative AI.

Join the growing coalition of over 260 organizations and experts calling for a 5-year pause on generative AI in schools! Read the full position statement at www.bit.ly/pausegenAI.

Add your name today and stand with us in putting the best interests of children first.