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Directs the NSF Director to run workshops to identify research gaps on how classroom AI affects children and to publish a report to Congress.
The bill improves transparency and produces evidence to help schools and parents manage classroom AI safely, but it relies on gap-analysis and reporting rather than funding or immediate safeguards, which may delay protections and use agency resources.
Schools and educators: Produces evidence (via an NSF report on research gaps) that can guide district-, state-, and school-level policies and practices for integrating AI in classrooms without harming learning or development.
Students: Identifies key research gaps about how classroom AI affects attention, independent learning skills, and socioemotional development, creating a roadmap for safer AI use that could improve learning outcomes over time.
Parents and families: Increases transparency by requiring a public report on research gaps, giving parents accessible information to assess classroom AI risks and hold schools accountable.
Students and parents: A study-and-report approach may delay implementation of concrete safeguards or regulations, leaving children exposed to potential harms from classroom AI while research is conducted.
Researchers and the public: The bill focuses on identifying gaps rather than funding new empirical studies or interventions, so important questions may remain unanswered without follow-up action or resources.
Taxpayers: Assigns additional workload and reporting obligations to the NSF that will consume agency resources without delivering direct services or immediate protections.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Official title: To direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to complete workshops related to the integration of artificial intelligence into classrooms, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 3, 2026 by George Whitesides · Last progress August 3, 2026
Requires the National Science Foundation Director to run workshops within 18 months to identify gaps in evidence about how classroom use of artificial intelligence affects children’s attention, learning, development, trust, and differential effects by age or vulnerabilities. The Director may involve researchers, educators, parents, and other stakeholders and must publish a report to two congressional committees within six months after finishing the workshops describing the identified gaps. Defines key terms by referencing existing federal definitions of “artificial intelligence” and “child,” and directs the NSF to deliver a public report summarizing workshop findings and research gaps related to AI integration in classroom settings.