44 state attorneys general warn AI companies: Protect kids — or else
Meta, Google and Apple have just been warned by the general prosecutors of 44 different American states: protecting children from injuries by their AI products – or facing consequences.
The National Association of General Prosecutors sent a letter To more than a dozen technological companies in the United States on Monday, demanding that these companies protect children from sexualized AI content.
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“We, the undersigned general prosecutors of 44 jurisdictions, write to inform you of our determination to use each facet of our authority to protect children from exploitation by predatory products of artificial intelligence,” opens the letter. “Your innovations change the world and inaugurate an era of technological acceleration that promises prosperity that is achieved by our ancestors. We need you to succeed. But we need you to succeed without sacrificing the well-being of our children in the process.”
The letter has been sent to the great giants of technology like Meta, Microsoft, Google and Apple, as well as the major AI companies like Openai, Perplexity and even the XAI of Elon Musk.
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General prosecutors strongly cite a recent report of Reuters in their letter. Reuters obtained internal meta-political documents that described its rules for AI chatbots speaking to children. Policy would have stressed that it would be acceptable to a chatbot to comment flirting the body of a child as young as eight years.
According to Reuters, Meta “deleted portions that declared that chatbots were allowed to flirt and engage in a romantic role -playing game with children” of his political documents after the point of sale contacted comment. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone later told Reuters that “such conversations with children should never have been authorized”.
As the general prosecutors point out in their letter, the political document was not an isolated incident. The general prosecutors sent a previous letter to Meta in May after reports Meta’s celebrity AI assistants had inappropriate and sexualized conversations with children.
As the most recent letter indicates, general prosecutors have “previously known this path” with a number of companies to which the letter has been addressed to the damage of social media platforms to children.
However, there is much more than sexualized content than these general prosecutors will be faced with regard to AI and the protection of children. Tuesday, just a day after sending this letter, the New York Times published An article on a 16 -year -old boy who died by suicide after talking about suicide and self -control methods with chatgpt. The teenager’s conversation took place over the months and involved in -depth conversations on self -control.
Of course, lawyers general should possibly go from the sending of letters and take other measures to slow down AI companies.
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