> A.I. features are now a standard part of Google’s commercially available search engine. “Search and A.I. are deeply integrated,” said Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google. If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.”

C'mon, it's right in the article.

The school can control AI on/off. Off means no search too.

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skeledrew an hour ago | parent [-]

Well their search engine is explicitly AI-driven; no AI, no search. Like you can't have juice that doesn't contain water.

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ceejayoz an hour ago | parent [-]

> Like you can't have juice that doesn't contain water.

This particular bit of juice didn't have the "AI summaries" ingredient for 93% of its existence.

Schools invested enormously in Google Classroom and Google for Education, and now the deal's changing. Not for the benefit of students.

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skeledrew 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

The water supply got an update. Reservoir instead of wells. There may be a difference in taste but you'll get used to it. Or learn to dig a well.

	▲	ceejayoz 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's more honest, but quite the goalpost move. The local population is probably allowed to complain that you built the reservoir with toxic waste, too, or that you filled the old well with construction debris.