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Kids Should Not Use Chatbots! (You Should Be Wary, Too…)

Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 19m

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0:00When it comes to AI, we've been talking a lot recently about these sci-fi style stories where superintelligent systems destroy humanity.

0:08And don't get me wrong, we don't want that to happen.

0:11That is an important topic to discuss.

0:14But in some sense, the radicalness of these predictions are letting the AI companies off the hook for the actual harms that they're causing right now.

0:25Now, the reason why this is on my mind is that I recently gave the opening remarks at a panel discussion that was held at my home institution of Georgetown University.

0:34It featured a bunch of legal scholars and lawyers talking about technological harms to children.

0:41And during this panel, I learned about an AI harm that hadn't yet been on my radar.

0:48And what I discovered floored me.

0:52So this is what I want to talk about today.

0:54If you have kids, you absolutely have to listen to this episode.

0:57But even if you don't, you still need to listen because the harms I'm going to discuss are probably affecting you as well.

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