Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too

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Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don’t give away the answers.

While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks, the ubiquity of these devices has made the company’s education products huge in schools. Now, Google says it will let educators choose whether to allow its AI tools in the classroom. However, blocking AI tools also means giving up search, leaving schools with a difficult decision.

Google’s new overarching approach to AI in the classroom sounds good on the surface. After consulting educators, researchers, and lawmakers, Google has decided that schools using its education products will be opted out of AI tools by default. It will be up to administrators to manually enable them when these changes roll out in the coming months.