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Exclusive: The doctors and education experts who studied AI’s impact on the young call for a 5-year moratorium in schools

A coalition of 250+ doctors and education experts formally calls for a five-year moratorium on generative AI in K-12 schools, with support for permanent bans on products failing safety testing.

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Fortune AIBY sys://pipeline

A coalition of over 250 doctors, child development experts, educators, and child safety organizations, led by Boston-based nonprofit Fairplay, has released a report calling for a five-year moratorium on generative AI products in U.S. and Canadian K-12 schools. The group cites research on AI's impacts on developing brains and warns that products failing safety testing should be permanently banned.

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