State colleges, preK-12 schools must implement AI guardrails before July

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Florida's State Board of Education approved new rules requiring public school districts, charter schools, and the state's 28 college systems to amend internet safety policies with AI guardrails by July 1. Education Commissioner Henry Mack said the approach avoids both banning AI outright and allowing ‘unfettered access.’

Schools must notify parents when a teacher approves an AI tool, name the platform, and let parents object and request alternatives. PreK-5 tools face extra review for age-appropriateness, and the rules aim to keep AI from ‘replacing’ teacher judgment.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a news release that ‘Florida will not outsource childhood to a chatbot,’ and that the state won't accept tools that ‘hide from parents, harvest student data, grade kids in secret, or pretend to be a friend.’ The state college rule similarly leaves case-by-case AI decisions to individual faculty.

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Calling a rulebook ‘one of the most comprehensive in the country’ before a single classroom has used it is a bit like bragging about a fence before you've checked whether it keeps anything out. The parts about notifying parents sound sensible enough; the bragging is the part that needs a second read.

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