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From the article, Google AI is deeply integrated with Google Search. So the article is correct - turning off one turns off the other.

From a privacy perspective, having all of this off by default is sensible. But only offering a basic product like Search if you opt into AI (when search as a capability does not need AI to function) - is newsworthy.

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> when search as a capability does not need AI to function

That means a far less capable search engine. Note that Google search has been AI-powered since before AI became a thing; it's now just more advanced, and particularly, explicitly publicized.

How the sausage is made is irrelevant when the goal is to get students to research primary sources of which Google AI summaries cannot be.

I remember a time when Wikipedia wasn't allowed as a source. Few years later, no problem.

I've never seen Wikipedia accepted as a source. Mostly I've seen the shift to recommending people look at Wikipedia's citations as sources.

I've seen this OK'd in college, though the number of allowed Wikipedia citations was capped.

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