The policy discloses that Khan Academy's AI-powered features for schools, including Khanmigo and Writing Coach, are covered by service agreements prohibiting AI model providers from using student input data to train their models. Users are also advised not to submit personal information in inputs to AI features.
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This provision establishes a contractual restriction on AI model providers regarding student input data, which is operationally significant for FERPA compliance and applicable U.S. state student data privacy laws. Compliance teams should verify that the underlying vendor agreements with AI providers include enforceable, auditable restrictions consistent with this disclosure.
Interpretive note: The policy asserts that vendor agreements prohibit training-data use but does not disclose the specific terms, audit rights, or enforcement mechanisms in those agreements, making independent verification of compliance uncertain.
Under this provision, the agreement states that AI model providers powering Khan Academy's school-facing AI tools are contractually prohibited from using student input data to train their models. Students and school administrators are advised by the policy not to include personally identifiable information in AI feature inputs.
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Compare across platforms →"Our services provided to Schools may include use of AI-Enabled Features such as our AI-powered teacher tools, our student tutor chatbot, Khanmigo, and Writing Coach features. AI-Enabled Features included in School services are designed to comply with applicable U.S. student data privacy laws. We provide privacy guidance to our users informing them that AI-Enabled Features are not intended to be used to process personally identifiable information, and advising them to not include personal information in inputs submitted to AI-Enabled Features. To provide further privacy assurances, our service agreements with the providers of artificial intelligence models used to power our AI-Enabled Features do not permit the providers to use Input data to train their models.Excerpt from Khan Academy's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes a contractual restriction on AI model providers regarding student input data, which is operationally significant for FERPA compliance and applicable U.S. state student data privacy laws. Compliance teams should verify that the underlying vendor agreements with AI providers include enforceable, auditable restrictions consistent with this disclosure.
Under this provision, the agreement states that AI model providers powering Khan Academy's school-facing AI tools are contractually prohibited from using student input data to train their models. Students and school administrators are advised by the policy not to include personally identifiable information in AI feature inputs.
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