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Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions

Common Sense Media · published 2025-07-16

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csm-teens-ai-companions-2025 · last checked 2026-10-18 · voice: civil society · origin: global north

Advocacy organisation that recommends no one under 18 use AI companions. Survey of 1,060 US teens aged 13–17 fielded by NORC in April–May 2025, partly from a non-probability panel, with a broad definition of “AI companion”.

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    A 2025 survey by an advocacy organisation found that 72% of US teens aged 13–17 said they had used an AI companion and about half used one regularly.

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