{"id":229530,"date":"2026-06-10T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:30:16","slug":"kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids rely on AI before adults for homework help, health and personal problems, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds\">Kids rely on AI before adults for homework help, health and personal problems, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds\">https:\/\/edsource.org\/kids-rely-on-ai-before-adults-for-homework-help-health-and-personal-problems-study-finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 14:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"edsource.org\">edsource.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Use Among Youth<\/strong>: Many children and teens are increasingly turning to AI for help with homework, health questions, and personal issues before approaching a trusted adult, according to a survey by Common Sense Media.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Prevalence of AI Interaction<\/strong>: Almost 90% of children aged 9 to 17 interact with AI, with one in four doing so daily. AI is primarily used for entertainment, schoolwork, and creative tasks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Preference for AI in Schoolwork<\/strong>: Nearly a quarter of children prefer to use AI for homework tasks before seeking help from teachers, counselors, or parents, especially those struggling with math, writing, and challenging assignments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Dependency and Emotional Support<\/strong>: Researchers noted high dependency on AI, with 20% of users finding it difficult to stop for a month, and 1 in 10 feeling it understands them better than humans. Lonely or unhappy teens often use AI for social and emotional support.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Literacy and Safety Gaps<\/strong>: The report highlights a lack of AI safety discussions among children, teachers, and parents. Many children misunderstand AI&#8217;s ability to distinguish between true and false information and do not report inappropriate content from AI chatbots.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Concerns About Loneliness and AI Overreliance<\/strong>: Increased AI use is linked to feelings of loneliness and less happiness among young people, possibly due to overreliance on AI or displacement of healthy coping skills.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Need for AI Education and Safety Conversations<\/strong>: Many teens believe they understand AI better than adults, indicating a need for better AI education and more safety discussions in classrooms and homes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids rely on AI before adults for homework help, health and personal problems, study finds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/edsource.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ChatGPT-1024x618.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229532,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229530\/revisions\/229532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}