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Google will block search access for schools that ban AI use
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other critics are accusing Google of trying to pressure U.S. schools to use AI.
Google said on Tuesday that it will turn off artificial intelligence in its educational apps for K-12 student accounts unless school administrators expressly enable it.
The Alphabet-owned search giant said that after surveying school administrators and teachers, it wants educational institutions to control students' access to various AI capabilities.
Access to Google's AI features, Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Classroom, as well as Google search will be automatically turned off for K-12 student accounts until "school administrators explicitly turn them on," Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager of education, said in a blog post .
Schools that ban AI "will not have access to search, and they'll see a message from their school that indicates it's not available," Phillips told The New York Times .
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