UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults
A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation growing up inside what UNICEF calls “a global experiment.”
An estimated 20 million children across ten countries have already used artificial intelligence, and they are picking it up more than three times faster than the adults around them, according to a UNICEF statement published on 30 June.
The figure comes from new analysis timed to land just ahead of the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, and it lands with a warning attached: the rules meant to protect children online are not keeping up with how fast they have moved in.
The numbers come from Disrupting Harm Phase 2, a research effort run by UNICEF’s Office of Strategy and Evidence at Innocenti alongside ECPAT International and INTERPOL, funded by Safe Online.
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