Google School AI Search Policy Draws Senate Challenge Arabian Post

(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) clearfix"> Google faces growing opposition from parents, teachers and US lawmakers over a policy that leaves schools unable to provide students with its search engine while excluding all generative artificial intelligence features.

Senator Edward Markey on Monday demanded that the company reverse the arrangement, warning that schools should not have to choose between protecting children from AI chatbots and retaining a widely used educational research tool.

Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote to Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai seeking answers by 30 November about whether schools could retain conventional search results without AI Overviews, Guided Learning or Gemini. He also requested evidence about the technology's effects on children's learning, safety and mental health.

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