Key Points
New research reveals what AI tools teenagers in the United States are using, and how oftenas well as how little their parents know about it...
It also shows that the pace of adoption is accelerating; in an earlier report on teenagers and AI released by Common Sense Media this June, based on responses from the end of 2023, only around half the respondents had used generative AI...
Most parents had not discussed AI with their kids.. Nearly half of the parents surveyed had worried that the arrival of generative AI tools might hurt their childrens writing and critical thinking skills..
This suggests that software to detect AI, as well as teachers' use of it, may be exacerbating existing discipline disparities among historically marginalized groups, including Black students, the report says.. Despite this, both Black teens and their parents report more optimistic feelings about how AI is used in education than their white and Latino peers..
Whats more, the study suggests that Black teenagers, as well as Latino teenagers, are more enthusiastic and experimental users of these tools than their white peers, reporting significantly higher rates of adoption for a wide variety of activities, from creating joking content to share with friends, to using AI as a companion..
