Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution
In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.
As some countries race to embed new AI tools in schools, I spoke with leaders in Estonia and Iceland about their more precautionary approaches to classroom chatbot use. — www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/technology/ school-ai-chatgpt-estonia-iceland.html
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: “'We're at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what's working and what's not working.'” — Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and …