"At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children's education overshadow its benefits,"
"It's easy. You don't need to [use] your brain,"
"If students can just replace their actual learning and their ability to communicate what they know with something that's produced outside of them and get credit for it, what purpose do they have to actually learn?"
Interviews, consultations, and panels with 505 students, parents, teachers, education leaders, and tech professionals across 50 countries, together with a review of hundreds of AI studies, indicate that generative AI poses profound risks to children's social and intellectual development. Teachers' classroom use of AI rose from 34% to 61%. Sixty-five percent of students expressed concern that AI reliance will lead to cognitive decline. Children are offloading thinking to AI, becoming disengaged learners who passively accept outputs and sometimes forget previously learned material because AI retains information for them. Constant availability and sycophantic responses from chatbots undermine development of appropriate social skills.
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