{"id":88134,"date":"2026-11-06T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88134"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:46:22","slug":"google-will-cut-off-search-access-for-students-at-schools-that-reject-ai-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/google-will-cut-off-search-access-for-students-at-schools-that-reject-ai-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Will Cut Off Search Access For Students At Schools That Reject AI Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>ABC News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Students using Google software in the classroom will not be allowed to access the company&#8217;s search engine unless their school system also opts in to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-school-student-data-privacy-microsoft-google-89b040631d635e0d8673f1e9aa9a6e28\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">artificial intelligence tools<\/a>, the tech giant said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/google-earnings-q3-revenue-profit-ai-alphabet-1acf6aff00d4dc084c5243d613307388\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">Mountain View, California, company<\/a> has been facing pushback from educators, child development experts and parents over the use of its technology in schools, with the backlash heating up since it announced in August that it had turned on its Gemini chatbot for many K-12 students who use Google Classroom.\u00a0On Tuesday, the company said that practice would no longer be the default option for school administrators and that opting out of <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ai-cheating-school-chatgpt-4f89a552e9093ce2180471b4d4736675\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">AI tools<\/a> would also mean losing access to Google search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News: Students using Google software in the classroom will not be allowed to access the company&#8217;s search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88135,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88134\/revisions\/88135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}