aceGoogle, accused of trying to bully schools in the US into using AI, backs off from announced change
Teachers across the US have raised alarms about pervasive AI-enabled cheating, and research suggests "cognitive offloading" to AI may reduce critical-thinking capacity. Google sparked nationwide outrage Tuesday – and then quickly backtracked – when it announced it would prevent schools from using its search platform if they opted out of its artificial intelligence products. "Google is using its search monopoly to co
Google announced that K-12 students whose schools rejected its AI would lose access to search, a plan it reversed within hours after Lina Khan, Bernie Sanders and others accused it of coercing schools.
The OECD report found that the link between AI use and student performance is complex and depends on how students use it and what for, so its figures do not show a single effect.
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