NYC Promised Final School AI Guidance by June. Now Officials Are Hitting Pause.

My take: This one worries me a bit and I will be straight with you. New York City's Department of Education promised to release its final AI guidance for schools by June, and ended up saying wait, this is going to summer. Why? Because their March draft received almost 6,500 comments, many against it, and officials decided to pump the brakes. The draft has good bones: it bans AI for grading, discipline, and special education plans, all the things that would put algorithms in control of 1.1 million students' lives. But the critical piece on how to review algorithmic bias (bias is when the model discriminates without anyone noticing) was left unresolved. It is like writing exam rules without defining what counts toward the grade. I genuinely prefer they think this through carefully before publishing. But 'the summer' is not a date, and kids do not have time to wait 🙄.