Survey Finds 70% of Teens Use AI for Schoolwork as Test Scores Decline

Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute's survey finds 70% of U.S. teenagers ages 13‑17 are using artificial intelligence for homework and in‑class assignments, a usage rate that coincides with a measurable dip in test scores. For website owners, this surge means AI‑driven tools—chatbots, summarizers, and content generators—will increasingly crawl educational sites, forums, and resource libraries to harvest data for student assistance. Expect higher volumes of non‑human traffic originating from services like ChatGPT, Claude, and emerging school‑focused AI platforms. This traffic can skew analytics, inflate page‑view metrics, and raise copyright concerns if scraped content is republished in student work without attribution. **Actionable tips:** 1. **Update your llms.txt** to explicitly list “AI‑research” bots (e.g., `User‑Agent: *AI-Research*; Disallow: /premium‑content/`) and set a crawl‑delay to limit rapid scraping of lesson plans. 2. **Deploy bot‑detection scripts** that flag high‑frequency requests from known AI service IP ranges; integrate these signals with your analytics to separate human versus AI engagement. 3. **Monitor content duplication** by using plagiarism‑checking APIs on newly submitted user‑generated content; flag matches to your own site’s pages to protect intellectual property and maintain academic integrity.