What matters in AI this week the Artificial Intelligencer explains: That’s an emerging issue that teachers and administrators are grappling with By Krystal Hu, Technology Correspondent   

For some, it may mean reverting to pre-Google days.

This week, Google said it will turn off its Gemini AI tool by default for K-12 student accounts, giving school administrators options to opt in. 

But AI has effectively been bundled with Google’s search engine: a school that wants no AI at all for its students risks losing Google Search, too. Schools that want students to continue to access the search engine will have to accept features such as AI-generated summaries. 

In other ways, teachers are going back to the future.

My colleague reported on how, in Silicon Valley, take-home writing assignments are increasingly giving way to quick oral exams, where teachers ask students to verbally explain their reasoning. Homework is being replaced by more supervised in-class writing and live discussion, where a teacher can ensure the thinking is being done by the student, not their AI assistant. And the lessons themselves are being redesigned around something AI still struggles to fake convincingly: a student’s own reasoning and perspective, not just the correct factual answer.

Outside the classroom, Americans also had a chance to cast their vote on the AI boom this week in the midterm elections.

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