AI Reports · Harvard · 2026-10-20 · Blog / commentary
Should parents be wary of Silicon Valley’s influence in schools?
New York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer says students need "tech civics" to understand the value and drawbacks of tools like AI. Since 2013, she has covered how leading technologists have treated classrooms as laboratories, market opportunities, and problems waiting to be solved. Her just-published book "Coding Kids" presents a panoramic view of campaigns starting in the 1980s to shape the nation's students into future coders, founders, and technologists.