Google Adjusts US K-12 Account Settings: Enabling Search Also Enables AI Features

Google announced an adjustment to service permissions for US K-12 schools: if schools want students to use Google Search, administrators must actively enable it, and the AI features built into Search will also be enabled at the same time. Chris Phillips, Vice President of Google Education, said that accounts for students from kindergarten through 12th grade cannot use Google Search, the Gemini chatbot, Gemini Notebook, or Gemini features in Google Classroom by default. Previously, New York City and the Los Angeles Unified School District successively tightened regulations on students' use of generative AI, and Google also plans to bring the guided learning mode in the Gemini app to its search service.