Google Put AI in Schools. Test Scores Plummeted.

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  Can you introduce yourself, please?

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  Yes.

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  I'm Shalini Ramachandran, and I'm an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

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  And as a parent, I feel like you have just been exploding

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  my brain over and over again with your investigations into what's going on with kids in schools this year.

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  Thank you.

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  It's been exploding my brain too.

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  And when I think there's something there, it ends up being far crazier than I imagined

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  when I actually talked to a bunch of parents and teachers and clinicians.

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  But yeah, my brain is also exploding.

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  So what are you going to explode our brains with today?

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  You know, earlier this year, I did a big investigation about how YouTube had kind of taken over the American classroom.

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  And the process just understood in a much broader way how Google had sort of trained

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  its eyes on children in schools as like a really important, critical audience.

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  Shalini has been reporting about how deeply embedded Google has become in our nation's schools.

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  From pushing the benefits of Chromebooks to helping make YouTube a cornerstone of lesson plans.

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  And now as it's really become sort of deeply enmeshed in American education,

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  it has really pushed out its AI tools to children.

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  So how did this aspect of the story, the fact that Google's Gemini

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  AI is now in front of every student in America, just about, how did that get on your radar?

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