Ohio has become the first state to require K-12 public schools to adopt policies on artificial intelligence, according to the education publication EdWeek . Like the ban on cell phones in classrooms that schools are implementing this year, it’s part of the budget that was signed into law last month.

The idea came from a coalition of businesses, nonprofits and educators in a report last November , said Chris Woolard, the Chief Integration Officer at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

“You have to have some guard rails in place. At the same time you want to encourage innovation, but there's so many different considerations, so having some sort of policies are gonna be critical," Woolard said in an interview.

Those guardrails include things like standards for privacy and

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