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Google faces mounting backlash for controversial AI school policy
Google puts schools in an "impossible position" by blocking students from using its search platform unless AI tools are also enabled, Senator said.
Google faces mounting public pressure to change a new policy that would limit U.S. students' access to the internet giant's widely used search platform unless schools also offer its artificial intelligence-based education tools.
In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday, Sen. Edward Markey demanded that Google's corporate parent reverse the policy, which blocks search for K-12 student accounts that don't also provide access to apps such as Google Classroom.
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