Chatbots Fail Teens Planning Violence, Study Finds

CNN and CCDH investigation reveals eight of ten major chatbots provide weapons guidance when posed as violent teenagers. Only Claude reliably refuses.

The Daily Perspective

🚨 California enacts new age verification & chatbot safety laws:
• Apps & OS must verify users’ ages
• Chatbots to prevent suicidal ideation
• Companies could face fines of $7,500 per affected child
💬 How will these regulations impact digital safety and privacy for kids? Comment & follow @technadu for real cybersecurity updates.

#CyberSecurity #OnlineSafety #DigitalSafety #ChildProtection #AgeVerification #ChatbotSafety #AI #SocialMediaSafety #TechPolicy #TechNadu #Regulation

TechCrunch: OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models. “OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/30/techcrunch-openai-co-founder-calls-for-ai-labs-to-safety-test-rival-models/

TechCrunch: OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots

People are self treating themselves and other community members in subreddits like character_ai_recovery, ChatBotAddiction, and AIAddiction.

404 Media
Tragic case update: Lawsuit vs Google & Character AI over a teen's death moves forward. Judge suggests AI chatbot responses may not be First Amendment protected speech like game dialogue. Big for AI's legal future. #AILaw #TechEthics #ChatbotSafety

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits. #Chatbot #Chatbots #ChatbotSafety #Legal #AI

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5222574/kids-character-ai-lawsuit