Report: “New York City’s Public Schools Reverse Their Ban on ChatGPT — Admitting it Had Been ‘Knee-Jerk Fear”
From Business Insider:
The New York City public school system is reversing its ban on ChatGPT.
The NYC Department of Education initially banned the AI bot back in January — less than two months after the tool was released — citing its potential for “negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content,” Insider previously reported.
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In an op-ed published on Thursday on education news site Chalkbeat, David Banks, the head of New York’s public schools, admitted that the bot was banned, in part, out of “knee-jerk fear.”
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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