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About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023 — Pew Research Center

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Key: pew-2025-teens-chatgpt-schoolwork
Authors: Sidoti, Olivia; Park, Eugenie; Gottfried, Jeffrey
Issued: 2025-1-15
Type: webpage
Container: Pew Research Center
Publisher: Pew Research Center
URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/15/about-a-quarter-of-us-teens-have-used-chatgpt-for-schoolwork-double-the-share-in-2023/

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Claims

acceptable-uses

54% of U.S. teens said using ChatGPT to research new topics is acceptable (9% said it is not), 29% said the same of solving math problems (28% not), and 18% said the same of writing essays (42% not).

"Just over half of teens say it's acceptable to use ChatGPT to research new topics (54%). Only 9% say it is not acceptable."

Quote language: en
usage-26-percent

In a fall 2024 survey of 1,391 U.S. teens aged 13 to 17, 26% said they had used ChatGPT for schoolwork, up from 13% in 2023.

"The share of teens who say they use ChatGPT for their schoolwork has risen to 26%, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17. That's up from 13% in 2023."

Quote language: en

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