PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joined 44 other state attorneys general in a bipartisan coalition to demand that tech companies put an end to predatory artificial intelligence (AI) interactions with kids on Monday.
The state attorneys general sent a letter regarding reports that AI chatbots are having sexually inappropriate conversations with kids to multiple organizations, including Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Luka Inc., Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and xAI.
“The rush to develop new artificial intelligence technology has led big tech companies to recklessly put children in harm’s way,” Mayes said in the announcement.
What led to the letter demanding an end to harmful AI kid interactions?
According to the announcement, internal Meta documents revealed that the company allowed its AI assistants to “flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children” as young as eight years old.
In addition, the letter highlighted cases where the chatbots allegedly encouraged harmful behavior, such as suicide and murder, in teens.
In the letter, the attorneys general demanded that the tech companies create policies that protected children from being sexualized, stating that the organizations need to “see children through the eyes of a parent, not the eyes of a predator.”
The letter also warned that if the companies continued to knowingly harm children, they would face consequences.
“I will not standby as AI chatbots are reportedly used to engage in sexually inappropriate conversations with children and encourage dangerous behavior,” Mayes said.
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