[threeseed]

There are plenty of positives for kids with AI bots.

Children often have questions that they are not comfortable talking to their parents about. And their peers can often be more clueless than they are. Or maybe they just want to understand the world they live in with something that is more fun and engaging than reading Wikipedia.

What's harming children right now aren't services like this. It's the peer pressure and unreal expectations being set by social media.

[Avshalom]

>What's harming children right now aren't services like this.

kinda really fucking depends on what "services like this" are telling them. Remember when the national eating disorder hotline replaced it's humans with chat bots that started telling people to just eat less?

[Avshalom]

NYC recently made a chat bot to answer legal questions for small businesses and it gave tremendously wrong information, likely harming both the employees and the business.

[renegade-otter]

It would gladly tell you it's OK to serve human meat in a restaurant.