Ban the use of Artificial Intelligence in public schools.

 

With this bill, both students and teachers will not be able to use generative AI programs when making/completing

assignments, designing lesson plans, and creating any educational material.

 

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, cheating in school has increased substantially. According to the U.S. Department of

Education, before COVID, about 30% of students self-reported that they repeatedly cheated on exams and assignments. This

number has since grown to almost 60%. During this same time frame, AI has also grown rapidly and seeped its way into the

hands of both students and teachers. While there are moments where it can be useful, AI has no place in the classroom.

Instead of actually absorbing the material, students use programs like Chatgpt, Gemini, and OpenAI to do assignments for

them for easy credit. Instead of creating lesson plans that cater to the needs of students, teachers just ask AI to

design there curriculum for them. Because of this, schools are popping out students who are unable to think for

themselves, they are just mind-numb robots who really on AI for everyday decisions. Not to mention the extreme security

and data privacy risks that come with excessive AI use. School is a place where we learn, not a place where a robot

learns for us.

 

AI- Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI - a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text, images, videos,

audio, software code or other forms of data. These models learn the underlying patterns and structures of their training

data and use them to produce new data based on the input, which often comes in the form of natural language prompts.

Public Schools - Free, government-funded schools

Educational Matierial - Lesson plans, tests, quizzes, assignments, or any material of educational merit used in a

classroom setting.

 

N/A

 

This law will be enforced by people making reports and accusations to either their Principal, Superintendent, or the

police. Following the report, a formal investigation into the accused will be pursued.

Students caught using AI will automatically receive a zero on the assignment upon first offense. If it is repeated, as

in three or more times, the student will have a mark on their permanent record indicating they committed Academic

Dishonesty. It is up to the institution on how that is marked.

Educators caught using AI will be given 2 warnings before action is taken. The first two times, they will be forced to

remake the material they used AI on, but the third time, the school will receive a $2000 fine, and the teacher will be

suspended for two weeks. The fifth time it happens, the educator will be removed from their position immediately.

 

September 7th, 2027, or the First day of the 2027-28 school year.