Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service.Just ahead of the start of the new school year, districts across the United States are issuing new policies on the use of artificial intelligence applications in classrooms. Last Wednesday, New York City effectively banned most student-facing AI in all K-8th grade classes while allowing a limited set of approved tools to be used for high schoolers for the upcoming school year. And on the same day, Los Angeles school officials announced the district was placing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for all of its estimated 378,000 students.To learn more about these announcements and the politics driving them, I spoke to two individuals who've been covering these matters for Tech Policy Press this summer.Chris Mills Rodrigo:Chris Mills Rodrigo, and I'm a fellow at Tech Policy Press.Laura Karpas:I'm Laura Karpas, and this summer I was an audio reporter at Tech Policy Press, and I'm also a current graduate student at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY.Justin Hendrix:Chris and Laura, thank you so much for joining me. We're going to talk a little bit about AI policy in schools and some news this week. I'm going to start with you, Chris. For Tech Policy Press this week, you did a survey, effectively, of what it's looking like across the country in different school districts. We've been tracking the news on how various jurisdictions have been trying to impose policies to lesser and greater effect,…

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