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Google’s AI-powered search tools are sparking alarm among child safety advocates, who say they pose unacceptable risks to kids—failing to detect suicidal crises, handing out homework answers, and delivering unreliable info. Common Sense Media’s new Youth AI Safety Institute found these features, widely used on school devices, are worse than Google’s Gemini chatbot, which is easier to control. The report includes disturbing examples like AI discussing cannabis with minors and ignoring explicit suicide mentions. While Google defends its tools as helpful and claims parents can already block them, Common Sense Media insists Google must urgently fix these flaws and give parents easy controls—because millions of kids are exposed daily.

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