Your kid typed the essay prompt into a chatbot. A perfect paragraph came back in ten seconds. The homework is done, the grade is safe, and something important never happened. The largest study of teenagers on the planet just measured what that shortcut costs. The OECD's PISA 2025 report, released September 8, 2026, tested more than 760,000 fifteen-year-olds across 91 countries. It also asked them how they use AI for schoolwork. 28 points That is the gap in science scores betw

Your kid opened the chatbot for homework. Good. Fair. It is fast, it explains things clearly, and it is awake whenever they are. But Australia's online safety regulator, the eSafety Commissioner, found something worth sitting with. In a survey of 1,950 children ages 10 to 17, fielded in February and March 2026, 78 percent had used an AI assistant. And 54 percent had used it for social and personal reasons: their feelings, their problems, even role-play. Here is the line that

Panoramic Parents Your kid uses AI every week. Chances are you worry about that more than they do. But here is the twist: the generation raised on AI is starting to have second thoughts about it. Gallup’s Voices of Gen Z study, published April 2026 with the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, surveyed 1,572 Americans ages 14 to 29 in February and March 2026. Half of them use AI at least weekly. That number barely moved from last year. But the feelings underneath it mov