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Parents’ Horror Stories are a Wake-Up Call: Protect Kids From Addictive AI | Red Hot Takes
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3:06Now PlayingPolitical leaders and parents need to take notice of a rising threat: AI chatbots that can quickly suck their kids in and become influential confidants, sometimes with disastrous consequences. NY Post Assistant Editorial Page Editor Brooke Rogers shares this story.
On Tuesday, a Senate subcommittee heard stomach-churning stories from three parents who are suing AI companies, claiming that Character.AI and ChatGPT egged on their teens’ mental health crises.
Two of the teens eventually committed suicide; one is now living in a mental health treatment facility.
Early this week, three more families filed lawsuits making similar claims after their minor children committed or attempted suicide.
No one should ever treat allegations in lawsuits as hard fact; settlement-hungry lawyers love to exaggerate. And grieving parents, reeling from the worst kind of loss, may seize on easy-seeming explanations for why their child did the unthinkable.
But however much these particular chatbots truly led these teens into crisis, America needs to ensure some clear guardrails for this tech.
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