• Dads are almost twice as likely to think that AI will have benefits for their child’ s learning as mums( 30 % vs 16 %)

• One in five( 19 %) parents are worried their child’ s school isn’ t keeping up with the potential impact of AI

• 34 % of parents say children should be taught how to use AI with lessons on AI, dads are much more likely to want to see lessons on AI than mums( 40 % vs 29 %)

• Just 12 % of parents think AI should be used in the classroom. Dads are twice as likely to think AI should be used in the classroom than mums( 16 % vs 7 %)

• Four in ten( 38 %) parents are worried about the impact of AI on their child’ s future job opportunities, while 26 % are worried about the impact of AI on their own job( s) in the future

• The most affluent parents are the most supportive of the benefits of AI in the classroom. They are two-and-a-half times as likely to say that AI will bring benefits to their child ' s learning than the poorest parents( 36 % vs 14 %)

• 44 % of the most affluent parents think children should be taught how to use AI in the classroom, compared to three in ten( 29 %) of the lowest income parents

• Almost twice as many parents with household incomes over £ 100,000 think AI should be used in the classroom than parents with household incomes under £ 20,000( 18 % vs 10 %), and more than twice as likely to think that AI should be used for homework( 16 % vs 6 %)

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