A week after New York City announced a one-year moratorium on AI in public schools, Microsoft announced it’ll be giving every school district in the country the option to dictate its own AI privacy and safety rules within its contracts—and the unions behind the deal say they want OpenAI and Anthropic to sign on next.
On Wednesday, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith announced the plan alongside American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, mere miles from where New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Governor Kathy Hochul first announced the AI moratorium for the nation’s largest school system.
