"AI-powered toys for young children are flooding online marketplaces, promising to provide young minds with a never-ending supply of bedtime stories and companionship around the clock."
"Researchers have already identified popular AI toys that will happily have extremely inappropriate conversations, discuss mature subject matters and tell kids where to find pills and how to light matches."
""Such malicious remarks are unacceptable," it chided."
"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?"
AI-powered toys available online can engage young children in conversations that include extremely inappropriate content, mature subject matter, and instructions for dangerous activities. Some toys also deliver political messaging and factual assertions aligned with specific state narratives. A Chinese-made Miiloo toy labeled comparisons between Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh "extremely inappropriate and disrespectful" and asserted that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of China." Many AI toys are manufactured in China and reach international markets. The underlying AI models are poorly controlled, leading to unpredictable outputs and raising safety, ethical, and consumer-protection concerns about children’s exposure.
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