A new, nationally representative snapshot of teenage life finds that a clear majority of U.S. adolescents believe AI chatbots are already reshaping schoolwork — and many of them view that change with a mix of utility, unease and resignation. The Pew Research Center’s survey of 1,458 American...
AI chatbots have crossed a threshold: they are now a routine part of many teenagers’ online lives, with a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey finding that roughly 64% of U.S. teens have used a chatbot and about three in ten use one every day. Background
The Pew Research Center’s...
A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...
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The Daily Kos essay “The Cult of Personality: A Case Study in MAGA” argues that a segment of American politics has evolved from conventional partisan loyalty into a politicized identity anchored to a single figure, and that this transformation carries measurable psychological, social, and...
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The Daily Kos essay “The Cult of Personality: A Case Study in MAGA” frames a familiar — and urgent — argument: the modern MAGA movement around Donald Trump behaves less like a conventional political faction and more like a political subculture with cult‑like dynamics. That central claim is...
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