More than half of teens are using AI for schoolwork—and many parents don’t know it

Raising kids in the digital age is hard. Keeping up with the chatbots doing their homework is even harder.

More than half of teens are turning to AI for school work, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The study—a survey of 1,458 U.S. teens and their parents from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, 2025—finds that 57% of teens use AI to search for information, while 54% use it to help with schoolwork.

Yet their queries extend beyond asking a chatbot to define the Pythagorean Theorem...