There is a powerful myth that if children don’t use AI in schools, our children will be “left behind.” That “equity” for students of color means every child should have unlimited access to a chatbot, a platform, and a virtual tutor.

Equity means ensuring every child has access to what research tells us supports learning, not flooding classrooms with surveillance technology that produces cognitive and emotional debt that will disproportionately harm students of color. As a neuroscientist, educator and parent of Afro-Latine boys, I have been carefully following these studies and observing my students’ performance. At this moment, a moratorium is the only answer to address the impact AI could have on our children. 

All the existing independent research on AI and the brain suggests that AI use inhibits our ability to learn . As I tell my medical school students, learning requires the brain to retrieve information, evaluate evidence, tolerate........

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