The parents I know with young kids are pretty careful about parental controls on apps like Roblox, but kids being kids, as they grow older they will figure out ways around them – or their friends will. That’s why any real solution has to be applied at the source. Kudos to the AGs for speaking out. Their letter lays the groundwork for future legal action. Via Gizmodo:
In a letter dated December 9, and made public on December 10 according to Reuters, dozens of state and territorial attorneys general from all over the U.S. warned Big Tech that it needs to do a better job protecting people, especially kids, from what it called “sycophantic and delusional” AI outputs. Recipients include OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Apple, Replika, and many others.
Signatories include Letitia James of New York, Andrea Joy Campbell of Massachusetts, James Uthmeier of Ohio, Dave Sunday of Pennsylvania, and dozens of other state and territory AGs, representing a clear majority of the U.S., geographically speaking. Attorneys general for California and Texas are not on the list of signatories.
It begins as follows:
