On November 9, US Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, urging Google to allow schools to disable artificial intelligence features while retaining search services—a move that has further intensified concerns that tech giants are promoting AI to schoolchildren. Google announced last week that AI tools (including the search engine) would be turned off by default for K-12 student accounts, but if school administrators enable Google Search, they must simultaneously accept the accompanying AI features. In the letter, Markey criticized the policy for putting schools in a dilemma: either expose students to potentially harmful technology or lose an important educational research tool. He stated that while schools, parents, and policymakers are working to establish safeguards for children's use of AI chatbots, Google is forcing schools to accept AI and treating children as collateral damage.