(AP) - The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into several social media and artificial intelligence companies about the potential harms to children and teenagers who use their AI ...

Our kids are exposed to too much sexualized online content already — now they’re being targeted by flirtatious fake friends specifically designed by social-media companies to spark romantic fantasies.

Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

The survey from Pew Research Center found that ChatGPT was the most popular artificial intelligence app among teens.

Meta executives approved stomach-churning guidelines that allowed its AI chatbots to engage in “romantic or sensual” chats with kids — including telling a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of ...

Google’s new FACTS benchmark shows today’s best AI chatbots are only about 69 percent accurate. Even top models like Gemini 3 ...

Both papers found that chatbots influence voter opinions not by using emotional appeals or storytelling, but by flooding the ...