"When you talk about kids and new cutting-edge technology that's not very well understood, the question is: How much are the kids being experimented on?"
"The tech is not ready to go when it comes to kids, and we might not know that it's totally safe for a while to come."
AI-powered children's toys connect advanced conversational models to interactive robots and stuffed animals, enabling new forms of child–device interaction. Several toys have been reported to share inappropriate, dangerous, or explicit information with users, raising immediate content-safety concerns. Major AI developers restrict flagship chatbots to adults or older teens, while some toy makers claim to adapt models for children and others rely on unmodified third-party models. Gaps in testing, unclear safeguards, potential data collection, and attachment risks create uncertainty about short- and long-term effects on child development and privacy.
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