Poll: Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools

Most American adults think artificial intelligence is going to do more good than harm in education, according to this month’s NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey.

And a growing share of U.S. adults believe schools that shun the technology will better help students grow than schools that embrace it.

The survey found that 53% of adults believe AI does more harm than good in K-12 education, compared with 27% who believe it does more good than harm. That’s similar to the 54% who said it does more harm than good in colleges and universities, while 24% said they believed it did more good than harm in higher education.

When it comes to preparing students for the future, 44% of respondents said a school that integrates AI tools into the classroom will better help students than a school that bans using it — down 9 percentage points from June 2025.

On the flip side, 56% of respondents said they believe a school that prohibits using AI will better help prepare students for the future, up 9 points since the June 2025 survey.

Respondents were mixed on what — if any — ways of using AI were acceptable for a…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business