{"id":228082,"date":"2026-06-08T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:00:13","slug":"new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy-wgcu-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy\">New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy\">https:\/\/www.wgcu.org\/section\/science\/2026-06-08\/new-requirement-given-to-floridas-schools-add-an-artificial-intelligence-safety-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 13:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wgcu.org\">www.wgcu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Florida Department of Education has mandated that school districts update their existing &#8220;Internet Safety&#8221; policies to include the use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>An upcoming rule development workshop on June 22 will guide districts in amending their policies to incorporate AI guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Despite Gov. Ron DeSantis making AI regulation a priority, the Legislature did not pass a bill that would have imposed restrictions and requirements on AI companies.<\/li>\n<li>This bill would have included provisions for parents to control children\u2019s interactions with AI chatbots, banned Florida government agencies from contracting with AI companies tied to \u201cforeign countries of concern,\u201d and included rules about the unauthorized use of individuals\u2019 names, images, or likenesses.<\/li>\n<li>The new mandate specifically focuses on the use of AI in educational settings, addressing a gap that was not covered by the unpassed Legislature measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New requirement given to Florida&#8217;s schools: Add an artificial intelligence safety policy | WGCU News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d369abd\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2308x1212+0+43\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F42%2F05%2F40f427cc4e1a991dd102274b83c7%2Fai-image2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228085,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228082\/revisions\/228085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}