How old do you have to be to start using an AI chatbot ? In some families, children as young as kindergarten age are already engaging with the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini.

That's according to a new survey from Pew Research , which reports that 3% of parents who responded said that their children ages 5 to 7 had ever used a chatbot. That jumps to 7% for parents with children between 8 and 10 years old and to 15% for those between 11 and 12.

About 40% of parents said their 12-or-under children used voice assistants like Alexa and Siri.

The findings come out of a survey of more than 3,000 US parents that looked broadly at how they're managing screen time for their children. While the AI chatbot usage averaged out to about 8%, or nearly 1 in 10 children, there were far higher numbers fo

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