{"slug": "half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai", "title": "Half of parents are worried their kids are too hooked on AI", "summary": "Half of parents surveyed by Deloitte are concerned their children rely too heavily on AI, even as usage outpaces school-provided tools and guidelines. Nearly 30% of parents report their children already use generative AI for schoolwork, while over a third worry schools aren't teaching enough AI skills. The findings highlight growing parental anxiety over AI's role in education.", "body_md": "Artificial intelligence really is everywhere these days.\n\nBeyond shaking up workplaces and college classrooms, the tech is gaining ground among grade school students — and it's making some parents nervous.\n\nAmong** **1,150** **parents of school-aged children surveyed in Deloitte's annual [back-to-school](https://www.businessinsider.com/back-to-school-season-more-stressful-for-mom-than-kids-2025-8) survey, half said they were concerned their child \"relies on AI too much.\"\n\nThat usage is outpacing the number of parents who said their child's school provides approved generative AI tools (22%) or has established guidelines for using the tech (33%).\n\nNearly 30% of respondents also said their children were already using generative AI tools in their schoolwork.\n\nAt the same time, more than a third of parents said they are concerned schools aren't preparing kids enough with AI skills, with one in eight parents planning to pay for AI tutoring or camps.\n\nThe numbers add a new wrinkle to the growing debate over [tech tools in schools](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-lost-the-k-12-education-market-to-google-2023-8).\n\nBusiness Insider's Katie Notopolous wrote in May about how her third grader and his friends \"had been using Google's Gemini on their school-provided Chromebooks to make [funny pictures of poop](https://www.businessinsider.com/school-chromebook-students-parents-classroom-ai-backlash-2026-5) and dinosaurs.\"\n\nSeveral school districts are also balancing a backlash against the widespread use of video resources like YouTube against a yearslong decline in math and reading scores.\n\nOne physics teacher in Canada told Business Insider last year that students' use of AI tools had prompted him to include more [analog classwork](https://www.businessinsider.com/teachers-change-curriculum-assignments-student-ai-cheating-2025-6).\n\n\"I've tried to sort of shift back toward some handwritten assignments, instead of having them do it on the computer,\" Ward said. \"That way, I can tell this is how they're writing. I know it's theirs.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-parents-worried-kids-too-hooked-on-ai-2026-7", "published_at": "2026-07-09 04:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 04:26:31.803925+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Deloitte", "Google", "Gemini", "Business Insider", "Katie Notopolous", "Ward"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/half-of-parents-are-worried-their-kids-are-too-hooked-on-ai.jsonld"}}