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A new study by an American non -profit focuses on the lives of children and families, General knowledge mediaHas found that most of the American teenagers (72%) have tried AI partner at least once. By “partner”, the study focuses on AI chatbots, designed for more individual interactions for users, not AI assistants who work as homework helpers, image generators, or voice assistants that just answer questions.
For example, the definition of study of AI peers can include those digital AI individuals, which are character. It is provided by companies such as A or Replyika, but it can also include the use of general-pure chatbots such as chat or cloud, which can be used for more individual conversations, if desired.
The study found that chatting with AI is appealing to American teenagers (aged 13 to 17), as not only about three-fourths tried the AI partner, but 52% also said that they are regular users. People who are regularly engaged with these companions, 13% of them have daily chat with them and chat a few times a few times a week.
Boys (31%) were also a bit more likely than girls (25%) that they never used AI partner, one of the four teenagers said they had never tried.
Conclusions are based on one Study It ran during April and May 2025 and used representative samples of 1,060 teenagers and operated by researchers at NORC at the University of Chicago. Already there are concerns about the effects of AI’s adolescence, a firm, character. A teenager’s suicide For and in Florida Promote violence in Texas. There are also many reports that describe Possibility Dangers Using AI for therapy.
Common Sense media’s new study conclusions provide an initial understanding of how young people are using AI to follow human conversation, including virtual friendship, emotional support, medical and role sports with other things.
The analysis also examined other behaviors around the teenage use of AI peers, in which what kind of tasks the teenages turned to them, why, and what were the latter effects.
For example, about half (46%) stated that he saw AI comrades as a tool or program, and 33% said they use them for social interaction and relationships. Kishore said that they use AI colleagues for various purposes: entertainment (30%), AI technology (28%), curiosity about advice (18%), and because they are always available (17%).
Half a teenager (50%) said that they do not rely on the information provided by AI colleagues. However, older teenagers are less likely to rely on AI’s advice than young teenagers, respectively at the age of 13 to 14 and at 20% and 27%.
One-third of the teenager said that he finds more satisfactory than those with real-life friends, although the majority (67%) felt the opposite manner.
In addition, 39% of AI conversations were used as practice for real -life conversations, as 39% said that they have implemented skills that they had earlier tried for real -world situations with AI. Between the practicing skills, social skills were cases of top use, 39%of teenagers discovered the field, followed by conversations beginning (18%), advice (14%), and expressing emotions (13%).
In terms of whether real -life relationships would be replaced by Tech, there was a positive discovery: 80% of teenagers who used AI peers, said that they spend more time with real friends than their AI chatbots. Only 6% said that reverse was true.
