Schools Passing Google AI Will Lose Google Search Too Early Next year, Google will make its AI tools the default for K-12 student accounts. The schools will have to replace them themselves. But a district that blocks the AI also loses the search. "Search and A.I. are deeply integrated," Google's chief education officer Chris Phillips told the New York Times. Students "will not have access to search," he said, and will see a message from the school that they are unavailable. Schools that maintain AI get two options: regular search with AI Reviews and AI Chats, or a student mode called Guided Learning that walks kids through homework step by step instead of handing out the answer. The move reverses a change in August that made AI the default in Google's classroom. In September, New York Los Angeles, the two largest districts in the US, already restricted students' AI on school devices. The terms: