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Teenage students often use AI to do homework, a survey finds. This is the impact on their grades


All 500 students in a CNA survey have got help with their homework from AI, with 84 per cent of those at secondary school using it at least weekly. The programme Talking Point explores the consequences.

This comes after Pew Research Center found that 26 per cent of United States teenagers aged 13 to 17 used the AI chatbot ChatGPT for their schoolwork last year, double the figure in 2023. In a local survey of parents conducted in December by the non-profit Centre for Evidence and Implementation, 68 per cent of them said their teens aged 13 to 17 were using generative AI tools for their schoolwork at least weekly. He demonstrated this with two AI detectors, QuillBot and GPTZero, and this typical Secondary 4 composition topic: Write about a time when you had to make a difficult decision between choosing a friend and doing the right thing.

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