For schools, universities and districts · Planned
AI off in the exam room. On where teaching wants it.
AI Breaker for education will let you decide how much AI each room's Windows PCs allow, from chatbots and Windows' own AI features to the AI engines hidden inside other apps. Students can't switch it back on, teachers can see what was blocked, and the accessibility tools some students rely on can stay.
For Windows 11 PCs. The personal version is in testing; the education version is planned and built on the same foundation.
Exam room PCs, Level 4
Blocked
- AI chat websitesEvery browser
- Windows' own AI featuresRecall, Copilot and more
- Local AI appsCan't start
Kept on for students who need them
- Live captionsException
- Voice typingException
Keeps working
Windows, your browsers, Office, your exam software and everything else that isn't AI.
Your web filter can't see most of the AI on a Windows PC.
Blocking a few chatbot websites used to be enough. Now AI is built into Windows itself, into Office and the browser, and into apps students can install or run from a USB stick.
- Exams and coursework
- An assessment only means something if everyone sat it under the same rules. One AI feature left on is enough to change that.
- Shared and lab PCs
- Dozens of students use the same machines every day. One student shouldn't be able to change the rules for the next class.
- AI on the PC itself
- Features like Recall, Click to Do and AI apps that run without the internet never pass through a web filter.
- Settings everywhere
- Turning Windows' AI off by hand means dozens of settings, across several apps, on every PC, and keeping up as updates add more.
The right amount of AI for each room, and each student.
AI Breaker has five levels, from blocking AI chat services to a full lockdown. On top of a level you can allow or block single items, so a room gets exactly the rules you chose.
- Levels plus exceptions In testing
- Choose a level, then allow or block one thing on top: one AI service, one app, one Windows feature. The personal version already works this way.
- Students can't switch it off In testing
- Lowering a level or allowing something needs an administrator's password. A student account can see what's blocked but can't loosen it.
- Teachers see what was blocked In testing
- Anyone signed in to a PC can open its activity log: which AI app or site was blocked, and when. Collecting the same records across a whole room or school, for your IT team, is planned.
- Different rules per room Planned
- Exam halls at Level 4, computer science labs allowing the coding assistant you've chosen, the library somewhere in between.
- Approved AI for teaching Planned
- Allow the AI service or app your school has chosen for lessons, and keep the others blocked.
- Exam windows Planned
- Raise the level for an exam and lower it afterwards, on a schedule, with every change recorded. Apps that are already open pick up a new block the next time they start, so set it before the exam begins.
Keep the tools some students depend on.
Level 4, the full lockdown, also turns off machine learning built into Windows. That removes live captions, voice typing, handwriting recognition and the natural Narrator voices, which some students rely on every day.
AI Breaker says so plainly before it applies Level 4. For the PCs those students use, you'll be able to keep those features on as exceptions while the rest of the lockdown stays in place, or use Level 3, which leaves them alone.
- Level 4 asks for an explicit confirmation of its accessibility impact, including when it's set centrally.
- Levels 1 to 3 leave captions, voice typing and Narrator working.
- Windows Hello face and fingerprint sign-in stop at Level 4; PINs keep working.
- Defender's malware protection is never touched, at any level.
What it isn't.
- Not a monitoring tool. It records which AI app or site was blocked and when. It never records what anyone typed, read or wrote.
- Not a web filter. Keep the one you have; AI Breaker covers the AI on the PC that filters don't see.
- No traffic inspection. It never opens or reads anyone's internet traffic.
- Never blocks Microsoft's servers. Copilot and Windows' AI features are turned off with Microsoft's documented settings, so Office, OneDrive and sign-in keep working.
- It can help you show that your AI rules were followed. It doesn't, on its own, make a school compliant with any law.
For your IT team.
Everything here is planned and designed to fit the tools school IT teams already use. No new console to learn first.
- Group Policy and Intune Planned
- An ADMX template and AI Breaker's own policy key set the level, options and approved exemptions per organizational unit or device group. Policy always wins over local changes.
- Silent deployment Planned
- An MSI with documented properties, standard exit codes, and detection scripts for Intune or your RMM.
- Logs for your tools Planned
- AI Breaker's own event log channel with stable event IDs, ready for Windows Event Forwarding or your SIEM. Each block points to the original Windows record.
- Hard to tamper with Planned
- Users, including local admins, can't lower a level your policy sets. Signed App Control policies protect the Level 3 and 4 blocks. An emergency undo by a local admin is always possible and is logged.
- Offline licence and block list Planned
- One signed licence file for every PC, with no activation call. Pin the block-list version or import it by file for change-controlled or offline networks.
- Clean undo In testing
- Every change is recorded before it's made, so lowering a level or uninstalling returns each PC to exactly how it was.
What exists today, and what's planned.
Nothing on this page is for sale yet. Here's exactly where things stand.
In testing Personal version
Being tested on Windows 11 Home and Pro.
- Levels 1 and 2
- Allow or block single items on top of a level
- Activity log with Windows event IDs
- One-click undo, panic button and recovery
- Only administrators can loosen it
In development Personal version
Planned for the first release of the personal version.
- Levels 3 and 4
- A scan of which apps contain AI
- Tamper lock
Planned Education
Built on the same foundation, after the personal version.
- Central settings with Group Policy and Intune
- Rules per room or device group
- Exam windows on a schedule
- Approved AI for teaching
- Central logs and reports
We're talking to school and university IT teams now to decide what comes first. If you run Windows labs or exam rooms, we'd like to hear from you.
Questions
When can we use it?
Not yet. The personal version comes first; the education version follows on the same foundation. Join the waitlist and we'll write when there's a date.
What will it cost?
Pricing for schools will be announced before launch. Tell us roughly how many PCs you have and we'll include you when we set it.
Does it work on Chromebooks, Macs or iPads?
No. AI Breaker is for Windows 11 PCs only.
Which editions of Windows does it work on?
Windows 11 Home and Pro. Enterprise and Education, the edition many schools run, include everything Pro has, so it works there too.
Does it replace our web filter?
No. Your filter handles websites in general. AI Breaker focuses on AI, including the AI built into Windows and installed apps that a web filter never sees.
Can a student turn it off?
Not from a student account. Lowering a level or allowing something needs an administrator, and when your IT team sets the level centrally, even a local administrator can't lower it, except through a logged emergency undo.
Does it collect anything about students?
The activity log stays on the PC and in your own IT systems. It lists which AI app or site was blocked and when, never what anyone typed or viewed, and nothing is sent to us.
Help us build it for your school.
Leave your school email. We'll ask a few questions about your PCs and exam rooms, and write when the education version has a date.
We keep your email, plus the country and network (often your company or internet provider) you signed up from, only to tell you about the launch. Write to [email protected] and we'll delete it.