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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Guardian community team

Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?

a child uses a smartphone
Have the AI warnings changed how your child will use chatbots? Photograph: Stefania Pelfini la Waziya/Getty Images

AI and social media companies have drawn intense scrutiny in recent months for some of the ways the technology they’re building operates, especially when it comes to their younger users.

Parents and regulators have accused companies like Meta of designing products that are addictive to younger users. AI developer OpenAI is facing dozens of lawsuits that allege its ChatGPT bot lacks safety guardrails. Now, in the last few weeks, employees of the biggest AI firms say the companies are more focused on competing with each other than building their AI models safely.

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