Google 对拒绝 AI 功能的学校关闭 Search
Google is entirely disabling Search in schools that don’t want AI
Google 向《纽约时报》表示，对拒绝其 AI 功能的学校将完全关闭 Search。Google 在周二的教育相关更新中称，除非管理员明确开启，K-12 学生账号对 Gemini、Gemini Notebook、Gemini in Classroom 和 Google Search 的访问“将完全关闭”。Google 教育副总裁 Chris Phillips 表示搜索与 AI 深度集成，学校无法在不关闭 Search 的情况下单独关闭 Gemini 功能。此前 Google 已在全球超过 1.5 亿师生使用的 Google Classroom 中默认开启 Gemini，上月有议员就 AI 产品进入学校的潜在危害向 Google 施压。Google 还将 Guided Learning 功能嵌入 Search 的 AI Overviews，本月起在部分美国学校测试。
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Google 把 Search 与 Gemini 功能绑定开关，学校若拒绝 AI 就失去搜索，读者可据此理解校园 AI 推广的争议。
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Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told The New York Times . The decision was also shared in a broader education-related update from Google on Tuesday, saying that access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search “will be entirely off” for K-12 student accounts unless “administrators explicitly turn them on.”
Administrators will not be given the option to toggle Gemini-powered features off without disabling Search, however. Chris Phillips, Google’s vice president of education, told the NYT , “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” adding that schools that disable Google’s AI features “will not have access to Search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” Google didn’t immediately respond to The Verge ’s request for comment.
The announcement comes just months after Google turned its Gemini AI assistant on by default inside the Google Classroom app, which is used by more than 150 million teachers and students globally. The move added to skepticism surrounding Google’s introduction of AI in schools amid reports of declining test scores and other impacts on students’ learning abilities . Last month, lawmakers pressed Google on the “potential harms” of putting its AI products in schools. Although Google is no longer turning on AI features in schools by default, this choice comes at a cost.
The company is also attempting to address concerns about students using its AI features to find “shortcuts” instead of solving problems themselves. Google is embedding its Guided Learning feature, which is supposed to help students work through problems , into its AI Overviews in Search. Google will begin testing this feature in select US schools this month.