Google’s AI rules could cut nearly 600,000 students off from Search under Mamdani’s school AI ban
Google says the AI built into Search can't be turned off on its own for K-12 accounts starting in 2027. Mamdani accused the company on X of trying to use its monopoly power to force AI on public schools.
Google’s AI rules could cut nearly 600,000 students off from Search under Mamdani’s school AI ban
Google says the AI built into Search can't be turned off on its own for K-12 accounts starting in 2027. Mamdani accused the company on X of trying to use its monopoly power to force AI on public schools.
New York City’s one-year ban on student-facing generative artificial intelligence could block nearly 600,000 public school students from using Google Search, after Google said it will build AI into search for its K-12 student accounts and will not let schools switch the two features off separately, Epoch Times Chinese reported.
Chris Phillips, a Google vice president for education, said search and AI have become so deeply integrated that a school that fully disables AI would also cut students off from Google Search, Gothamist reported on Friday, November 6.
Under the changes Google announced this week, Gemini, Gemini’s Notebook feature and Google Search will be turned off by default in K-12 student accounts, leaving school administrators to decide which to switch on, Epoch Times Chinese reported. The AI built into Google Search cannot be disabled on its own, the outlet reported, so a school that wants to keep search for students must also accept its AI. The changes take effect at the start of 2027.
Google said the arrangement is meant to give schools more control and that it will improve the AI in…
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