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Over 70 per cent of students in US survey use AI for school work

Many children in the US seem to be using a chatbot to help them with their work, despite the risks of errors and often in defiance of school rules

By Chris Stokel-Walker

13 December 2024

A teen using ChatGPT

Many children in the US seem to be using chatbots to help them with their schoolwork

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Seven in 10 secondary school students have used large language models (LLMs) for their studies, according to a survey of more than 300 US pupils.

“I realised that a lot of the people around me were using large language models, and more specifically ChatGPT, for a lot of school assignments,” says Tiffany Zhu, an 11th-grade student (equivalent to year 12 in the UK) at The Harker School in San Jose, California.

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