This is where use of AI service is growing fast
Big tech companies are investing heavily in AI services. As investors start being impatient, the companies try to make people use the AI services to prove that the investments are paying off. One sector where AI use for sure has accelerated is school kids doing their homework.
The share of teens who say they use OpenAI’s ChatGPT for their schoolwork has risen to 26%, according to a Pew Research Center survey of US teens ages 13 to 17. That’s up from 13% in 2023. Still, most teens (73%) have not used the chatbot in this way.
The first version of ChatGPT was launched on November 30, 2022, partly for free to test use. A premium subscription version was launched on February 1, 2023.
The use of ChatGPT increases with age. Teens in 11th and 12th grade (31%) are more likely than seventh and eighth graders (20%) to say they use ChatGPT for their schoolwork. About a quarter of ninth and 10th graders say this, which is not significantly different from the other two groups.
Teens’ use of ChatGPT for schoolwork does not vary by gender or household income.
Just over half of teens say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT to research new topics (54%). Only 9% say it is not acceptable to use it for this.
Far fewer support using the chatbot to do math or write essays:
- 29% of teens say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT to solve math problems, while 28% say it’s not acceptable.
- 18% say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT to write essays, and 42% say it’s not acceptable.
Another 15% to 21% of teens are unsure whether it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for these tasks.
Teens’ awareness of ChatGPT has grown. Overall, 79% of teens say they have heard of this chatbot, up from 67% in 2023.
They have also become more familiar with ChatGPT. The share who say they have heard a lot about it has risen from 23% in 2023 to 32% today.
White teens (83%) are more likely than Black (73%) and Hispanic teens (74%) to say they’ve heard a lot or a little about ChatGPT.
Teens’ use of ChatGPT for schoolwork increased across demographic groups. But certain groups stand out for using the chatbot in this way: Black and Hispanic teens (31% each) are more likely than White teens (22%) to say they have used ChatGPT for their schoolwork. But this wasn’t the case as recently as last year.
In 2023, similar shares of White (11%), Black (13%) and Hispanic teens (11% ) said they used the chatbot for schoolwork. (There were not enough Asian teens in the sample to be broken out into a separate analysis.)
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