Fordel StudiosThree in 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day, but safety concerns are growing
What Happened
While teenagers may start out using AI chatbots for basic questions, their relationship with chatbot platforms has the potential to turn addictive.
Our Take
The 'addiction' framing is lazy journalism. Kids have always obsessed over new tools—didn't we do the same with Google? Real risk: ChatGPT replacing critical thinking instead of supplementing it. They're outsourcing homework and analysis to a black box.
Parents should care less about screen time, more about what they're actually doing on there. If your kid's using it to think through problems, that's fine. If they're copy-pasting answers? That's the issue.
OpenAI and Anthropic need way stronger guardrails for minors—age-gating alone won't cut it.
What To Do
Track what your teens submit to ChatGPT for a week; homework patterns reveal whether they're thinking or offloading.
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