Children using AI in schools: How 3 major countries differ in policy amid debate on tech’s brain effects (opens in new tab)

On June 19, Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced a near ban on the use of generative AI by elementary school students. The government’s new guidelines, which will be applied for the upcoming school year starting in August, lay out how much AI students should be using given their age and grade level: Students in first through seventh grade (approximately ages 6–13) will be barred from using the technology at school, while students in lower secondary education (ages 14–16) can use...