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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We know from the neuroscience that when kids are learning off an iPad or any human being is reading off of a…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

AOC Rips AI, Blasts Tech Companies For Attempting To 'Outsource Our Cognition To A Machine'

Published October 1, 2026

I often feel like I cannot even believe in some days at how grateful I am to have been raised with paper books in my school. I may be dating myself with that. Because We know from the neuroscience that when kids are learning off an iPad or any human being is reading off of a screen, it actually does not code in your brain as deeply or as well as it is with paper and ink. And the reason all this ed tech came a lot of times this ed tech flooded into our school systems was because they have lobbyists and they have salespeople and … (02:52–03:07)

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Asserts that neuroscience shows learning from screens is less effective than from paper.

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“AI systems want us to be dependent and outsource our cognition to a machine.”
Asserts that AI systems aim to make humans dependent on machines for cognition.00:34-00:46
“One of the things that we did in New York City is that we, a lot of people worked and organized to kick AI out of our school systems, out of our public school systems.”
Asserts that efforts were made in New York City to remove AI from public school systems.03:29-03:39