Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays? According to new research from the Pew Research Center, the number of kids automating school assignments is now staggering. At this point, 57 percent of kids are using chatbots to search for information, while 54 percent say they use AI for “help with homework” — a euphemism that could mean they’re using it as a tutor that enriches learning, but in many cases probably amounts to the kind of cheating that does nothing to prepare them for higher education or the job market. And who could blame them? They’re being barraged by the message that AI is poised to take over virtually all jobs, and especially any that required intellectual labor that school is attempting to prepare them for — a drumbeat that has bleak psychological effects on adults, and likely similar ones on kids. The …