Adults’ opinion on how K–12 schools should handle AI advances U.S. 2023-24
As of March 2024, a total of 52 percent of adults in the United States stated that K-12 schools should focus on teaching students how to appropriately use artificial intelligence (AI), declining slightly from 54 percent in August of 2023. Conversely, a greater share of adults in 2024 believed that schools should prevent students from using AI, at 21 percent, compared to 19 percent in the previous year. However, 27 percent of respondents were not sure how schools should handle advances in artificial intelligence, a small decrease from 28 percent who shared this belief in 2023.