Posted on 07/20/2026 3:50:53 AM PDT by Libloather
California is drawing a line in the digital sand.
Starting 2027, public schools in the Golden State can’t have AI teachers for K-12 students.
The latest amendment to the state’s education code, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, clarifies that all staff and contractors recruited by public schools should be “natural people.”
Assembly Bill 2148 says that while AI can still be used as a supplemental learning tool like a tutoring software, the actual legal “employee” or “contractor” delivering instruction and services must be a human.
The original bill proposed a blanket ban on using AI and educational technology in public schools but lawmakers later toned it down a bit, saying that only humans can be hired to educate and support California’s K-12 public school students.
“We unfortunately have arrived at a point in the history of humankind where we need to define educators as human beings.,” the bill’s author, Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) had said earlier this year.
He said that the proposal stems from the “dramatic rise” of AI and it’s unknown impact on the future of education.
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“Natural Human”
Is that one of the new genders in California?
AI teachers might be weird, but some of the real teachers are worse.
LoL
Just Big Union protecting that dues revenue.
Question: Can the wokesters define a “human being”
Now, resurrect the term “natural born” and applying to voter eligibility.
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Carole King and Gerry Goffin would approve.
So CA can define what a human is, but has no idea what a man or woman are....checks out.
I agree.
An AI teacher may be doing the teaching 98% of the time but there will be a Unionized teacher there somewhere, collecting a paycheck, benefits and paying dues.
Teacher’s union protecting their turf?
“Natural Human”
Is that one of the new genders in California?
Beat me to it, I was going to question whether or not there were any natural humans left in that third world state.
I doubt it.
Not good. Their humans are more degenerate than the AI.
I got that one.
...and the lesson prep, and the exam marking, and reading a students book review, and student lab work, and the parent/teacher meetings, and keeping abreast of teaching regulations....
A child is taught by a ‘natural human,’ not AI.
Progressives hit hardest but they have a back up plan when they become adults NETWORK NEWS.
California human teachers are at root, indoctrinators.
An AI teacher might slip up and teach the truth rather than the State propaganda
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