In a Spring 2024 Education Next article, I argued that, despite the conventional wisdom that students were all in on artificial intelligence (AI), many in high school and college felt deeply anxious about its impacts on the future jobs available to them and what they should be learning now.

A new survey suggests that parents also have big concerns—around their children’s future job prospects, what they learn in school, and whether they should even go to college.

College Guidance Network, which provides AI-powered expert guidance to parents around colleges and careers (and for which I host live shows for parents on the topic of careers), conducted the survey of 602 parents of U.S. high schoolers that were nationally representative based on household income, student gender, region, and school type.