Google lets schools opt out of AI only by disabling search — why it's controversial
_FelixSimon_ · x · 2026-11-05
Washington Post reporter Will Oremus examines Google's widely misunderstood move: schools that want to opt students out of AI can only do so by disabling Google search entirely.
He explains why the setup sort of makes sense from Google's standpoint—and why people aren't wrong to be angry, even though some of the public details got mangled: AI is now the default in products students use daily, and the opt-out lever is set unreasonably high.
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