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Prohibits humanoid robots and AI systems from being used in schools; provides limited exceptions; provides for student privacy protections; makes related provisions.

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New York Assembly Bill 11662 amends the Education Law by adding Section 305-a to regulate the use of humanoid robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in K-12 schools. Under Section 305-a(2), school districts, boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES), charter schools, and nonpublic schools are prohibited from purchasing, leasing, deploying, or otherwise utilizing a humanoid robot in any instructional setting. Humanoid robots are specifically barred from delivering instruction, facilitating classroom activities, answering instructional questions, supervising students, assessing student performance, providing behavioral or disciplinary supervision, or providing counseling or social-emotional support. Section 305-a(3) provides narrow exceptions allowing temporary humanoid robot presence for robotics, engineering, computer science, or AI coursework; scientific demonstrations or museum programs; and maintenance or testing unrelated to instruction—but even within these exceptions, robots may not perform any instructional, supervisory, or evaluative function. Section 305-a(4) prohibits AI systems, chatbots, avatars, or virtual assistants from serving as the primary instructor in any instructional setting, requires all instructional settings to remain under the direction of a certified educator, and limits AI to a supplemental role under direct educator supervision. Section 305-a(5) establishes student privacy protections, prohibiting school AI systems from collecting or using biometric identifiers, facial recognition data, voiceprints, iris or retinal scans, fingerprints, gait or emotional recognition data, or personally identifiable student information for AI model training or commercial purposes; student interactions with AI systems must not be retained after a session ends and may not be used for advertising, profiling, or commercialization. Schools may not condition student participation on consent to these prohibited data collections. Section 305-a(6) requires annual certification to the Commissioner that AI systems comply with the section's requirements. Section 305-a(7) directs the Commissioner to promulgate implementing regulations. The bill takes effect 180 days after enactment.

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