{"id":19327,"date":"2026-11-04T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19327"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:03:04","slug":"google-announces-its-shutting-off-search-engine-access-for-schools-that-ban-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/google-announces-its-shutting-off-search-engine-access-for-schools-that-ban-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Announces It\u2019s Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How desperate is Google to force their AI spyware on children to develop their detailed psychological profiles of them? Or is it more about manipulating these young minds and keeping them from fully developing? This puts their whole Chromebook for schools program on shaky ground, not that kids should be using that spyware anyway. Consequently, you can convert many Chromebooks to an opensource BIOS and install Linux on them, see Mr. Chromebox<\/a>. And of course, just use another search provider, which also would be a dumb thing for Google to force so many children to do, forgoing the advertising dollars and violating their commitment to investors. But then they just had a huge miss and stock sell off because of these policies. Could this be an Antichrist agenda and noncompliance is not an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schools across the country have long grown dependent on Google, from its eponymous search engine to services like Gmail and Chromebooks, the company\u2019s cheap laptops that have become commonplace in classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s a fraught relationship that\u2019s now seriously being tested as teachers start to suspect that the AI use is wreaking havoc on the impressionable minds<\/a> of their students. The tech has been shown to erode young people\u2019s critical thinking skills<\/a>, cause their testing skills to plummet<\/a>, and \u2014 at the extreme end \u2014 drive them into isolation and AI psychosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google is now putting on brass knuckles to keep its AI in schools, saying that it\u2019ll be unwilling to support schools that move to block AI entirely. As the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, the tech giant is revoking access to Google Search, the most important gateway to information on the open web, for any schools looking to restrict AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a spiteful move that could greatly deteriorate the company\u2019s already tenuous relationship with educators. Put differently, Google is holding schools hostage by withholding its number one bargaining chip from any institution willing to say no to AI. The decision could force teachers\u2019 and administrators\u2019 hands as they watch AI destroy a generation of students<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google has plastered \u201cAI Overviews\u201d on top of its search engine, entangling the two products. But the service\u2019s answers are its frequently wrong, turning the very top of company\u2019s index of the internet into a massive minefield of misinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSearch and AI are deeply integrated,\u201d Google VP of education Chris Phillips told the NYT<\/em>. If a school bans AI, students \u201cwill not have access to search, and they\u2019ll see a message from their school that indicates it\u2019s not available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has been advertising its Gemini AI chatbot to schools as a way to help teachers and provide personalized tutors to students. It forced the AI features on classrooms earlier this year by making them the default, triggering a major outcry among educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news comes as state regulators continue to ponder how to set rules for the use of AI in public education and by minors as a whole. Several school districts across New York and California have restricted some of these features on school devices, with the hopes of regaining access to traditional search without AI Overviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that option no longer appears to be on the table as Google looks to force AI into classrooms. The company announced this week that schools can either choose to have search with AI Overviews turned on \u2014 or a student-oriented version of its Gemini chatbot, called Guided Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those two options are unlikely to get a glowing reception from frustrated educators looking to protect children from the many harmful effects of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How desperate is Google to force their AI spyware on children to develop their detailed psychological profiles of them? Or is it more about manipulating these young minds and keeping them from fully developing? This puts their whole Chromebook for schools program on shaky ground, not that kids should be using that spyware anyway. Consequently, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19327\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}