Bates provides all faculty, students, and staff with user accounts for accessing and using Google Workspace for Education, including G-Mail, Google Docs, and Gemini.  The use of Gemini from your Bates account affords several protections not in place when you use other AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, etc). These protections ensure privacy and data security when you use Google’s AI tools appropriately and responsibly.  They include:

• No Human Review: For users of Gemini as a “Core Service” under Google Workspace for Education, your prompts and responses are not reviewed by humans.
• No Model Training: Your data is also not used to train AI models that are used outside of your institution’s domain. This is a significant difference from how Google handles data for general, consumer-facing Gemini accounts, and it is a key protection for educational data.
• Privacy by Design: The service is designed to be private, and your data stays within your organization unless your admin gives explicit permission otherwise.