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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR' s.
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  Speaker 2: Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well, Zoran Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: made an announcement yesterday about AI in grade schools, basically
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  Speaker 2: saying they weren't going to use AI in grade school
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  Speaker 2: for the most part because the teachers' union wanted that.
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  Speaker 2: So how do New Yorkers feel about it? Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore's job. She has her beat on the street
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  Speaker 2: today on that very topic. Good morning, Natalie. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Larry. Good morning, Curtis. You know, this has
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  Speaker 3: been a hot-button issue for years now as AI sort
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  Speaker 3: of arises, and people use it more and more. But
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  Speaker 3: New York City Public Schools says that's not happening for
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  Speaker 3: some of its youngest learners, at least for now. The
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  Speaker 3: mayor and schools chancellor made the announcement shoulder-to-shoulder yesterday saying,
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  Speaker 3: saying kids between kindergarten and eighth grade will not have
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  Speaker 3: access to AI software in the classroom, while high schoolers
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  Speaker 3: will be introduced to the technology, but it's not going
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  Speaker 3: to be fully integrated, so they won't have full use
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  Speaker 3: of it all the time. People of all ages weighing in.
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  Speaker 4: It's honestly a smart idea because I think that during
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  Speaker 4: our most formative years, using AI is probably when it's
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  Speaker 4: most damaging. I think that having that early education where
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  Speaker 4: you're not using it and then being able to learn
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  Speaker 4: how to use it as a tool later on is
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  Speaker 4: probably most beneficial.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is, if you ban something, it's going to
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  Speaker 5: make somebody want it even more. So, I mean, think
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  Speaker 5: about Europe. They drink at the age of 18, we
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  Speaker 5: drink at the age of 21, we have a higher
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  Speaker 5: drunk driving rate. I think AI is a tool. So
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  Speaker 5: I wish I had AI when I had to write
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  Speaker 5: an essay with you in my outline, but do I think?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it's a good idea. Children need to
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  Speaker 5: learn the right way.
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  Speaker 2: They need to find out what's going on with their
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  Speaker 2: own brain and not artificial intelligence, because they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be vegetables.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even know how to tell time anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've certainly witnessed kids not being able to tell
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  Speaker 3: time anymore. But so she's not necessarily, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: sort of see the day to day of what technology
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  Speaker 3: is doing to the younger generations. I was just talking
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  Speaker 3: to somebody last night about that. Now, the mayor laid
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  Speaker 3: out parameters that comes with this one year ban. He
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  Speaker 3: says teachers will be teachers now will be able to
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  Speaker 3: use AI software for lesson planning, but not for green
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  Speaker 3: grading or managing crises. So high schoolers will have access
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  Speaker 3: to five vetted AI software, but they won't be able
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  Speaker 3: to use it without teacher supervision. They'll also have to
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  Speaker 3: take modules on safely and properly using AI and how
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  Speaker 3: to spot AI generated content. High school, they already have
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  Speaker 3: their brains.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, little kids, no way.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely no.
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  Speaker 5: They need to learn what's real and what's not. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how you grew up, but in my school,
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  Speaker 5: we had typing class in third grade. They taught us
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  Speaker 5: to embrace technological advancements. I think they should have a
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  Speaker 5: course on kid-friendly AI, or AI that's specifically for kids
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  Speaker 5: in school. And there can be parameters on it, but
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  Speaker 5: that's my belief. Make it accessible in a way that
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  Speaker 5: they can learn how to use it in a way
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  Speaker 5: that makes sense for them.
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  Speaker 3: And I grew up exactly like her. I took computer
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  Speaker 3: classes and typing classes and we learned how to use
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  Speaker 3: the paint function. If anybody remembers what used to be
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  Speaker 3: very crude and rickety and still is in this like
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  Speaker 3: new school way of paint. But that's how they sort
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  Speaker 3: of got us introduced to the computer. And so AI,
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  Speaker 3: she's saying, is sort of becoming this new function that
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  Speaker 3: people need to learn how to use. The city's saying
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  Speaker 3: they're not quite going to just rule it out. They
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  Speaker 3: want high schoolers with this limited access to learn how
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  Speaker 3: to use AI in order to somewhat prepare them for
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  Speaker 3: when they go to college. So the city doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to necessarily have such blinders on it when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to what AI can do But officials say they want
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  Speaker 3: to be cautious of the potential harms. Now, some New
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  Speaker 3: Yorkers just don't like AI in general.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like AI, and I agree with the ban.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the effects on the environment, not really my favorites.
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  Speaker 4: and the people in charge of it are not my
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  Speaker 4: favorite either. I feel like you could go a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ways with it. I mean, I think that it's
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  Speaker 4: a really beneficial tool. I found it pretty helpful in
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  Speaker 4: the workplace. I think that it's useful for summaries, for
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  Speaker 4: making things a lot faster, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: when you start using it too early on in education,
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  Speaker 4: it cuts a lot of corners and probably is not
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  Speaker 4: the most beneficial to your brain development, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I could talk about it for a while.
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  Speaker 3: They're getting lazier and lazier.
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  Speaker 4: And that way they can just take over their brains.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to recuse myself here, Larry, until I speak
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  Speaker 1: with my youngest son. Because he knows all the tricks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like they don't have their cell phone in school.
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  Speaker 1: They do have their cell phone. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: ask him first. And some teachers that I know, because
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  Speaker 1: I've got to believe there's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cheating on.
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  Speaker 2: I hope there is, because if not, these kids in
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  Speaker 2: New York schools are going to be backwards. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to advance like the people across
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know teachers already who are using it in
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  Speaker 3: terms of just making lesson planning and stuff. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not a teacher. You guys know this is what I do.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Natalie, we got to get going. You'll be
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  Speaker 2: back tomorrow morning at 7.50.