Norway just banned generative AI for elementary school students, and the contrast with Washington's priorities tells you everything about who American policymakers actually serve.
While a sovereign nation acts to protect developing minds from Silicon Valley's products, the U.S. government spends its bandwidth pressuring platforms to censor adult citizens' political speech and deplatform dissidents. One government shields children. The other manages the population.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced the near-total ban on generative AI tools for students aged 6 to 13, set to take effect at the start of the new school year in late August. His reasoning was straightforward: AI lets children skip crucial steps in their education, and schools should focus on teaching them to, as he put it,
