28% of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots daily, poll says

The survey from Pew Research Center found that ChatGPT was the most popular artificial intelligence app among teens.

Artificial intelligence chatbots have entered many teenagers’ daily routines.

As many as 64% of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini, with about 28% saying they use them daily, according to survey results released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan polling firm.

The survey results provide a snapshot of how far AI chatbots have entered the mainstream culture, three years after the release of ChatGPT set off a wave of AI investment and marketing by the tech industry. It illustrates the extent to which chatbots have begun to influence teens’ daily lives, even as the impact of such technology on child development remains unclear.

According to the Pew survey, about 4% of teen respondents said they used AI chatbots “almost constantly,” while 12% said they used them several times a day and another 12% said they did so about once a day. About 18% said they used AI chatbots several times a week.

“It’s striking that a majority of teens are using these apps,” said Michelle Faverio, a research associate at Pew who worked on the survey.