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Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools
What is your opinion on this? Norway banned smart phones and now AI.
> Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre argues that using AI could increase the risk that young children miss important steps in their education.
- PaiDxng 3mo agoNorway's approach can be seen as a "caution-first" policy choice, buying time for educational research and regulation to catch up with the technology.
- al_borland 3mo agoIt shocks me that anyone would be giving AI to elementary school kids, so I think this is good.
- toomuchtodo 3mo agoExcellent news for child health and development.
- wasting_time 3mo agoDiscussed at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600093
- JSR_FDED 3mo agoGood, first develop empathy and social skills. Then critical thinking. Only then AI as an educational tool. Social media? Never.
- jamesli233 3mo agoReally curious about how they actually ban it, like do they set a law against that behavior? Who is gonna to take the responsibility?Their parents?
- kingkongjaffa 3mo agoPresumably it's in schools so it's down to the teachers to confiscate devices and not use them in the first place as tools children drive. I assume using AI to make teaching materials that teachers then disseminate is still fair game.
- lemonademan 3mo agoTheir Prime Minister is right to ban the use of AI in elementary schools, as most people who use AI to answer questions don't focus on retaining a set answer but rather answering whatever question was asked. So yes, elementary school students will miss a lot of steps, but this is still just my own opinion. However, I am more interested in how AI was used in elementary schools in the first place.
- penpendian 3mo agoBut maybe teacher can use ai to create customised storybook or material faster without always relying on human retail that take steps and weekss
- mikeodds 3mo agoThis could be customized to each child, a primer if you will, you could call it “a young lady’s illustrated primer” for the girls
- penpendian 3mo agowell i am backtesting a pre-context engine written in typescript for storytelling, and so far i think the pdf and mp3 content is very good. Though i only limit it to certain writer style like jane austen or stan lee
- journal 3mo agoAI is a tool and you have to learn how to use it. You do that in a place called school. I guess, they're afraid kids will learn the truth. It must be to stun their growth as there's no other explanation. You wouldn't ban AI in math class because at that age there is no application. But if there is computer lab, or laptops, i don't see what the problem is except them finding out the truth. It's just protection from future competition by stunting their growth. Modern kids are so uneducated that AI would benefit them no matter how they continued to exist.
- idbnstra 3mo agowhat's preventing them from "finding out the truth" outside of school?
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- ahmedehab_01 3mo agoGood, and should be banned worldwide for elementary school children. Either that or we get a generation of dumbasses with zero critical thinking skills.
- alquinsmiles 3mo agoSweden sort of did the same thing with digital education/computers and reinvested in analog/books because students learned better with the latter.
- VaderAi 3mo agoThat is a brilliant move when you think about it ...as students grow up having to use there brain for common sense as well..
- VaderAi 3mo agoIs that because most students were using ai glasses to answer exams
- softwaredoug 3mo agoWhatever debates we might have about AI in higher ed, is anyone actually advocating for AI in primary school? Seems self evident you would not want to do this. It’s so obvious elementary school is as much about social/emotional learning and you’re not going to get this from AI.
- buynao 3mo agoAI can instantly answer every question a child asks. But what children truly need is the ten minutes spent being stumped by a question.
- weekendViper 3mo agoExactly! If everything we do or think doesn't require the effort, we will stop evolving.
- ahmedmohamed_ 3mo agoIt's correct decision to do that, to depend on their own thinking and reasoning Not just ask LLM and get the answer Thinking is a skill as any other skill that needs practice
- IraFrost 3mo agoI think that’s right. The tricky thing with GPTs is correctly interpreting the output. When I’m writing, I always need to double-check things with Lu (copy.lu).