As AI chatbots become increasingly popular among teenagers, experts argue that traditional online safety frameworks focusing on ‘who’ is talking to a child need a major overhaul, highlighting the complexities of AI as a text interface rather than a social network.
For three decades, child safety policy online has revolved around a simple question: who is talking to a child. That framework made sense when the main concern was strangers, classmates or other people using social platforms to reach children directly. But it fits artificial intelligence badly, because a general-purpose AI assistant is not a social network. It is a text interface connected to a model, not a place where one person is trying to persuade or prey on another. According to Pew Research Centre, about two-thirds of US teenagers now use AI chatbots and roughly three in ten do so daily, most often for schoolwork and information gathering. source?? Wait cannot cite. Need no citations. But source map later. Need maybe mention by attribution. Let’s continue without citation markers. Since no inline citations allowed except map. But body can mention sources naturally. Need not use bracket numbers. Let’s craft complete.
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