_used correctly_ and to the fullest of its capabilities, AI is the best technology ever invented for learning. If you don\u2019t believe this as a technical HN person at the epicenter of this technology\u2019s capability set, I probably can\u2019t persuade you. But you can do a lot better than your transcript.
Used in the default mode, or with a desire to take shortcuts, or a desire to minimize what is perceived (often correctly in the case of many school curriculae) as BS fake work, it is the best technology ever invented to avoid learning."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_theptip","story_48600093"],"author":"theptip","comment_text":"I thought the dichotomy would make this clear, but the claim was not that however you use AI, it\u2019s the best thing ever. To be more explicit:
_used correctly_ and to the fullest of its capabilities, AI is the best technology ever invented for learning. If you don\u2019t believe this as a technical HN person at the epicenter of this technology\u2019s capability set, I probably can\u2019t persuade you. But you can do a lot better than your transcript.
Used in the default mode, or with a desire to take shortcuts, or a desire to minimize what is perceived (often correctly in the case of many school curriculae) as BS fake work, it is the best technology ever invented to avoid learning.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:46:45Z","created_at_i":1781974005,"objectID":"48610677","parent_id":48609108,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:51:04Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"runarberg"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Useful as in \u201cbetter than nothing\u201d but lacking as in \u201cinferior to almost anything else\u201d."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_runarberg","story_48600093"],"author":"runarberg","comment_text":"Useful as in \u201cbetter than nothing\u201d but lacking as in \u201cinferior to almost anything else\u201d.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:45:45Z","created_at_i":1781973945,"objectID":"48610668","parent_id":48609108,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:51:04Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Nathanba"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"It's just "rock and roll and video games are bad" popular nonsense. AI is the best learning tool you could possibly ask for, it's literally your own personal ultra knowledgeable teacher that has all day to answer questions from you. I remember being in school and the most I could hope for was to raise my hand and ask one (1) question sometimes. The teacher would then already be miffed if I asked another follow up and made sure to quickly keep talking so that I wouldn't ask anything else alongside all kinds of other social cues or just outright tell me to look at it at home. I remember falling behind in understanding some basic math concepts and literally never ending up understanding them fully. When you are a child nobody cares in the slightest, you are alone. How could AI possibly make this situation any worse? Life is already at the near maximum pain for children, you barely get to ask a question before you get shut down and you get to reread the same exact useless textbook explanation 30 times in a row. AI is a 100% net gain, it's like having 50 extra teachers on standby. Is having teachers suddenly a bad thing? Of course not. Especially not if the only reason you dislike the teachers is because you can't tell the child to use the teachers intelligently for maximum, fastest gain in understanding.
In the future we should be getting rid of nearly the entire teaching position and instead be going with a model where human teachers are more like guidance counselors that can offer some extra experience and anecdotes from how things will be in real life, something that AI will inherently have less ability to do. All these restrictions are just made by adults who literally don't care to think about how life is for children and have long forgotten. They just want to give orders from the top without having to think about it. Is there a danger that children will abuse it? Of course, it's a massive danger. Without AI there is also a massive danger that children will never learn something properly because nobody has time to teach them. Does anyone care about that danger? Does anyone care that a child will waste years of its life in schooling that is boring? No because that damage is invisible to people who do not care, the children will become intellectually stunted and stop caring about learning or doing productive things. Life is full of dangers, the goal should be to use all the tools we have in their optimal way and if that includes teaching children how to use AI, when to use it and the value of understanding things then the time for that is as soon as possible. I have a feeling that all these complaints about AI come from people who themselves never learned the value of independent thinking and stopped thinking at some point. They went through schooling but with rote memorization and repetition and little to no curiosity or drive to do anything other than the exact homework that the teacher gave them.
This is especially ridiculous: "In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.". So when you are already an adult and went through over a decade of schooling you can finally use AI? When you are 14 there are children these days that are already making videogames, there is no reason whatsoever to hold children back. Stop treating children like their time is worthless. This is their life time, you don't get to take it away from them however you like as if they are dumb pets that just need to be taught how to behave."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Nathanba","story_48600093"],"author":"Nathanba","comment_text":"It's just "rock and roll and video games are bad" popular nonsense. AI is the best learning tool you could possibly ask for, it's literally your own personal ultra knowledgeable teacher that has all day to answer questions from you. I remember being in school and the most I could hope for was to raise my hand and ask one (1) question sometimes. The teacher would then already be miffed if I asked another follow up and made sure to quickly keep talking so that I wouldn't ask anything else alongside all kinds of other social cues or just outright tell me to look at it at home. I remember falling behind in understanding some basic math concepts and literally never ending up understanding them fully. When you are a child nobody cares in the slightest, you are alone. How could AI possibly make this situation any worse? Life is already at the near maximum pain for children, you barely get to ask a question before you get shut down and you get to reread the same exact useless textbook explanation 30 times in a row. AI is a 100% net gain, it's like having 50 extra teachers on standby. Is having teachers suddenly a bad thing? Of course not. Especially not if the only reason you dislike the teachers is because you can't tell the child to use the teachers intelligently for maximum, fastest gain in understanding.
In the future we should be getting rid of nearly the entire teaching position and instead be going with a model where human teachers are more like guidance counselors that can offer some extra experience and anecdotes from how things will be in real life, something that AI will inherently have less ability to do. All these restrictions are just made by adults who literally don't care to think about how life is for children and have long forgotten. They just want to give orders from the top without having to think about it. Is there a danger that children will abuse it? Of course, it's a massive danger. Without AI there is also a massive danger that children will never learn something properly because nobody has time to teach them. Does anyone care about that danger? Does anyone care that a child will waste years of its life in schooling that is boring? No because that damage is invisible to people who do not care, the children will become intellectually stunted and stop caring about learning or doing productive things. Life is full of dangers, the goal should be to use all the tools we have in their optimal way and if that includes teaching children how to use AI, when to use it and the value of understanding things then the time for that is as soon as possible. I have a feeling that all these complaints about AI come from people who themselves never learned the value of independent thinking and stopped thinking at some point. They went through schooling but with rote memorization and repetition and little to no curiosity or drive to do anything other than the exact homework that the teacher gave them.
This is especially ridiculous: "In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.". So when you are already an adult and went through over a decade of schooling you can finally use AI? When you are 14 there are children these days that are already making videogames, there is no reason whatsoever to hold children back. Stop treating children like their time is worthless. This is their life time, you don't get to take it away from them however you like as if they are dumb pets that just need to be taught how to behave.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:44:22Z","created_at_i":1781973862,"objectID":"48610651","parent_id":48600093,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:45:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"theptip"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"But we do give them bicycles, so the lesson would be \u201cgive them technology that is safe to use\u201d.
And then we are back to the discussion at hand none the wiser; what forms of AI are safe to use for kids?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_theptip","story_48600093"],"author":"theptip","comment_text":"But we do give them bicycles, so the lesson would be \u201cgive them technology that is safe to use\u201d.
And then we are back to the discussion at hand none the wiser; what forms of AI are safe to use for kids?","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:36:56Z","created_at_i":1781973416,"objectID":"48610577","parent_id":48608209,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:40:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"theptip"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"It\u2019s a good point. I could see a world where exams get cheaper to administer.
I also think we can use project work as an ongoing assessment."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_theptip","story_48600093"],"author":"theptip","comment_text":"It\u2019s a good point. I could see a world where exams get cheaper to administer.
I also think we can use project work as an ongoing assessment.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:33:18Z","created_at_i":1781973198,"objectID":"48610548","parent_id":48607663,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:35:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"theptip"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"It\u2019s one dimension, I agree. Though, for essay-based courses I\u2019m a little skeptical about writing under time pressure.
My thinking here is that you might want to also introduce more \u201cviva voce\u201d (verbal defense) style tests. These have been expensive to administer but my hunch is that you can scale these with AI administering the first round, random human review or participation. This feels like a better endpoint than essays under time pressure (but also maybe you can elect one or the other?)
My other angle is to break completely from the past. I want to see more project work. If AI makes it easier to fake or attain any given level of knowledge, we need to ask more of students, ie ask them to demonstrate mastery by building real things. More open-ended projects are harder to grade (use AI to scale grading), but more fun and engaging for students.
This doesn\u2019t just refer to STEM of course; why not ask students to write a play, compose a symphony, etc?
My core thesis is that most students would work harder and engage with things that interest them, and the fundamental problem with Taylorized education is that one-size-fits-all is only interesting to some."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_theptip","story_48600093"],"author":"theptip","comment_text":"It\u2019s one dimension, I agree. Though, for essay-based courses I\u2019m a little skeptical about writing under time pressure.
My thinking here is that you might want to also introduce more \u201cviva voce\u201d (verbal defense) style tests. These have been expensive to administer but my hunch is that you can scale these with AI administering the first round, random human review or participation. This feels like a better endpoint than essays under time pressure (but also maybe you can elect one or the other?)
My other angle is to break completely from the past. I want to see more project work. If AI makes it easier to fake or attain any given level of knowledge, we need to ask more of students, ie ask them to demonstrate mastery by building real things. More open-ended projects are harder to grade (use AI to scale grading), but more fun and engaging for students.
This doesn\u2019t just refer to STEM of course; why not ask students to write a play, compose a symphony, etc?
My core thesis is that most students would work harder and engage with things that interest them, and the fundamental problem with Taylorized education is that one-size-fits-all is only interesting to some.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:21:58Z","created_at_i":1781972518,"objectID":"48610445","parent_id":48607437,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:24:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"doctorpangloss"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"A "million times better," or 0.9 percentiles better? You have no idea.
Of course I don't want kids to be distracted in school. I just think that if things were as easy as a ban, or some other kind of coercion, education would be easy."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_doctorpangloss","story_48600093"],"author":"doctorpangloss","comment_text":"A "million times better," or 0.9 percentiles better? You have no idea.
Of course I don't want kids to be distracted in school. I just think that if things were as easy as a ban, or some other kind of coercion, education would be easy.","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:17:07Z","created_at_i":1781972227,"objectID":"48610396","parent_id":48607027,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:19:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"analog31"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":">>>> Any definitive claim to know what are the right things kids should learn in a moment of rapid technological shift is probably garbage and just a projection of our own biases.
I'd say this is the case in times of technological stability as well.
Education has always been based on heuristics: Teach A, B, and C, with the hope that people will gain X, Y, and Z. Avoid P, Q, and R. The suspicion that some forms of education are fructifying, and others are stultifying, are largely a matter of guesswork and social bias. Attempts to clear things up with "studies" tends to produce results on a par with pseudoscience. Our biases are all we've got.
The reaction to AI isn't the first time that parents have had to decide on the merits of educational technologies: Radio, TV, the early Internet, social media, etc. Even books. There was certainly a suspicion that TV and social media caused brain rot, or a related issue, moral rot.
Regarding your comment below, I was born in the 60s, and was certainly educated for the web era. I'm more adept with technology today, including AI, than most people half my age.
My children were required to learn Microsoft Office in elementary school, "for their careers.""},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_analog31","story_48600093"],"author":"analog31","comment_text":">>>> Any definitive claim to know what are the right things kids should learn in a moment of rapid technological shift is probably garbage and just a projection of our own biases.
I'd say this is the case in times of technological stability as well.
Education has always been based on heuristics: Teach A, B, and C, with the hope that people will gain X, Y, and Z. Avoid P, Q, and R. The suspicion that some forms of education are fructifying, and others are stultifying, are largely a matter of guesswork and social bias. Attempts to clear things up with "studies" tends to produce results on a par with pseudoscience. Our biases are all we've got.
The reaction to AI isn't the first time that parents have had to decide on the merits of educational technologies: Radio, TV, the early Internet, social media, etc. Even books. There was certainly a suspicion that TV and social media caused brain rot, or a related issue, moral rot.
Regarding your comment below, I was born in the 60s, and was certainly educated for the web era. I'm more adept with technology today, including AI, than most people half my age.
My children were required to learn Microsoft Office in elementary school, "for their careers."","created_at":"2026-06-20T16:06:11Z","created_at_i":1781971571,"objectID":"48610285","parent_id":48606581,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T16:11:49Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"qsera"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"So that is why I said teachers should be compensated well but may be by other means than paying out a large sum as salary.
For example, if you were able to get free education for your children as part of your payment, wouldn't that have made your life a lot easier?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_qsera","story_48600093"],"author":"qsera","comment_text":"So that is why I said teachers should be compensated well but may be by other means than paying out a large sum as salary.
For example, if you were able to get free education for your children as part of your payment, wouldn't that have made your life a lot easier?","created_at":"2026-06-20T15:51:08Z","created_at_i":1781970668,"objectID":"48610143","parent_id":48608567,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:53:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"qsera"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"While true, not all jobs are equally critical in that regard. A bad programmer probably can be detected easily. But the effects of a generation of bad teachers might only show up after many decades!"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_qsera","story_48600093"],"author":"qsera","comment_text":"While true, not all jobs are equally critical in that regard. A bad programmer probably can be detected easily. But the effects of a generation of bad teachers might only show up after many decades!","created_at":"2026-06-20T15:48:09Z","created_at_i":1781970489,"objectID":"48610111","parent_id":48608580,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:53:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"cmrdporcupine"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"they don't seem to have the courage to do it. they don't even bother closing down the school wifi for a lot of stuff.
there's also parent who would boohoo about not being able to contact their kids all hours of the day"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_cmrdporcupine","story_48600093"],"author":"cmrdporcupine","comment_text":"they don't seem to have the courage to do it. they don't even bother closing down the school wifi for a lot of stuff.
there's also parent who would boohoo about not being able to contact their kids all hours of the day","created_at":"2026-06-20T15:33:44Z","created_at_i":1781969624,"objectID":"48609965","parent_id":48608912,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:37:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dpkirchner"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"In person ID requirements all rely on punishing merchants if a minor fools them with a fake ID which aligns the incentives pretty well. It's hard to imagine how that would work online. Do you go to jail/pay thousands of dollars if someone hands their phone to their kid while logged in to Facebook or Google? You would if you sold beer to a kid who was given their parent's wallet.
Without an enforcement mechanism that punishes site owners the whole system fails. And you can't reasonably expect site owners to be responsible for checking ID on every request. So, it's (practically) impossible.
> And I don't really understand the issue people have with social media and ID. You're already required to link your phone which is a massive invasion of privacy
Yep, and we* lost that argument and "think of the children" hysteria won.
* I would bet the same folks opposed to ID requirements now were opposed to phone number then"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dpkirchner","story_48600093"],"author":"dpkirchner","comment_text":"In person ID requirements all rely on punishing merchants if a minor fools them with a fake ID which aligns the incentives pretty well. It's hard to imagine how that would work online. Do you go to jail/pay thousands of dollars if someone hands their phone to their kid while logged in to Facebook or Google? You would if you sold beer to a kid who was given their parent's wallet.
Without an enforcement mechanism that punishes site owners the whole system fails. And you can't reasonably expect site owners to be responsible for checking ID on every request. So, it's (practically) impossible.
> And I don't really understand the issue people have with social media and ID. You're already required to link your phone which is a massive invasion of privacy
Yep, and we* lost that argument and "think of the children" hysteria won.
* I would bet the same folks opposed to ID requirements now were opposed to phone number then","created_at":"2026-06-20T15:21:20Z","created_at_i":1781968880,"objectID":"48609859","parent_id":48606954,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:22:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"abyssin"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I would happily make a career switch if I had the feeling my work in a school would be useful and doable. Where I live, I tried it and it was neither of the two. After having experienced efficient companies, schools feel mind-boggingly stupid. And the policy of never failing students and reluctantly enforcing rules generates an serious waste of human energy."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_abyssin","story_48600093"],"author":"abyssin","comment_text":"I would happily make a career switch if I had the feeling my work in a school would be useful and doable. Where I live, I tried it and it was neither of the two. After having experienced efficient companies, schools feel mind-boggingly stupid. And the policy of never failing students and reluctantly enforcing rules generates an serious waste of human energy.","created_at":"2026-06-20T15:09:51Z","created_at_i":1781968191,"objectID":"48609764","parent_id":48608208,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:21:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bethekidyouwant"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lol how many kids do you have?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bethekidyouwant","story_48600093"],"author":"bethekidyouwant","comment_text":"lol how many kids do you have?","created_at":"2026-06-20T14:45:17Z","created_at_i":1781966717,"objectID":"48609596","parent_id":48607044,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T15:06:04Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rootusrootus"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I appreciate the replies that just drive home how correct the observation is. Some of you hate the US, I get it. Some of you are probably bots or shills doing it for compensation. Some are just parrots. Some are actually in the US, of course, there's no loathing like self-loathing."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rootusrootus","story_48600093"],"author":"rootusrootus","comment_text":"I appreciate the replies that just drive home how correct the observation is. Some of you hate the US, I get it. Some of you are probably bots or shills doing it for compensation. Some are just parrots. Some are actually in the US, of course, there's no loathing like self-loathing.","created_at":"2026-06-20T14:26:51Z","created_at_i":1781965611,"objectID":"48609475","parent_id":48603949,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T14:29:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"himata4113"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I highly doubt that I am special in a way where I have a "smarter" brain. I believe that I simply adapted to learning fast. I was a slow learner and by grades were awful until around 7th grade where I've started to catch up and perform really well in school.
But what you said about homework IS motivation, self-discipline IS motivation. I had zero issues digging into whatever I can find to improve at programming and grasp concepts far beyond what I would be learning at my age. I started programming at the age of 12 which I believe also manifested in the ability to do much better in school."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_himata4113","story_48600093"],"author":"himata4113","comment_text":"I highly doubt that I am special in a way where I have a "smarter" brain. I believe that I simply adapted to learning fast. I was a slow learner and by grades were awful until around 7th grade where I've started to catch up and perform really well in school.
But what you said about homework IS motivation, self-discipline IS motivation. I had zero issues digging into whatever I can find to improve at programming and grasp concepts far beyond what I would be learning at my age. I started programming at the age of 12 which I believe also manifested in the ability to do much better in school.","created_at":"2026-06-20T14:26:23Z","created_at_i":1781965583,"objectID":"48609468","parent_id":48608652,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T14:29:33Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"rootusrootus"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Congrats, reinforce the point. Keep on making the online world shittier by making sure to push the narrative."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_rootusrootus","story_48600093"],"author":"rootusrootus","comment_text":"Congrats, reinforce the point. Keep on making the online world shittier by making sure to push the narrative.","created_at":"2026-06-20T14:23:46Z","created_at_i":1781965426,"objectID":"48609449","parent_id":48604500,"story_id":48600093,"story_title":"Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/","updated_at":"2026-06-20T14:29:33Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":531,"nbPages":27,"page":0,"params":"tags=story_48600093&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":1,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":3,"roundTrip":21},"total":0},"query":"","serverTimeMS":5}