<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2QI9DZ_1Gm8mS1J00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2QI9DZ_1Gm8mS1J00" width="600" height="372" ><figcaption>Google said schools&nbsp; cannot fully shut off AI services within the search engine , but that the AI tools are turned off by default – it is the choice of school administrators about whether to turn them on for students and teachers . The company also said schools that opt out of AI policies would lose access to Google completely. Michael Teeple NonStop Local Multimedia Journalist</figcaption></figure>BOZEMAN, MONT. — A new Google policy could affect how schools use the search engine and its AI tools with student accounts.Google announced on Tuesday that K-12 schools would not have access to its search engine if they rejected the tech companies' AI policies.District officials in Montana say Google is giving schools the authority to decide whether they want AI features turned on as part of Google Search. As default, the AI features within Google are turned off for students, unless school administrators decide to access them.For Bozeman, that decision comes down to whether the district chooses to use AI in the classroom. Currently, the district does not have a policy regarding artificial intelligence."It's going to be dependent on our district policy whether or not we engage with AI or not. The search, the AI tools are always going to be there, but it's going to be our policy whether or not we are going to engage with AI," said Mike Van Vuren, deputy superintendent for the Bozeman School District.Van Vuren explained that while the Bozeman school district does not have a specific policy regarding AI in place, they are open to using it as an educational tool.He said the district would focus on whether the technology helped students learn before making decisions about how to use it."Is it going to have a positive impact on student learning? And that's got to be our major filter on that, right? And so, if we find areas and are there recommendations that say, 'yeah, we could AI as an educational tool to enhance and better student learning?', then we need to consider that and see how we can provide a better learning experience for our students," said Van Vuren.Google also outlined the change to their AI policy in schools in a statement from Chris Phillips, the company's vice president and general manager of education."We are now updating our approach to control for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search... access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until administrators explicitly turn them on," said Phillips.Google said schools cannot fully shut off AI services within the search engine, but that the AI tools are turned off by default – it is the choice of school administrators about whether to turn them on for students and teachers. The company also said schools that optout of AI policies would lose access to Google completely.</div></body>

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