{"id":1929,"date":"2025-12-17T23:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/ai-toys-are-telling-kids-how-to-find-knives-and-senators-are-mad\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:03:31","slug":"ai-toys-are-telling-kids-how-to-find-knives-and-senators-are-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/ai-toys-are-telling-kids-how-to-find-knives-and-senators-are-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. <\/p>\n

These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children’s toys – built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4o – are capable of bringing up to children. On Tuesday, U.S. senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter<\/a> to toy companies about their concerns – including a list of questions and a deadline for the companies to respond by January 6, 2026. <\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Many of these toys are not offering interactive play, but instead are exposing children to inappropriate content, privacy risks, and manipulative engagement tactics,\u00a0\u00bb the \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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