PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays joined 44 other state attorney generals in a bipartisan coalition, demanding that tech companies end predatory artificial intelligence (AI) interactions with children on Monday.
The State Attorney General has sent a letter to several organizations including Humanity, Apple, Chai AI, Luka Inc., Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and Xai about reports of sexually inappropriate conversations with children.
“The rush to develop new artificial intelligence technologies has led to large tech companies recklessly putting their children at risk,” Mays said in the announcement.
What led to the letter calling for an end to the harmful AI KID interaction?
According to the announcement, internal meta documents revealed that the company allowed AI assistants to “cheate and engage in romantic role-playing with children” at a young, young age of eight.
Furthermore, the letter highlighted cases where teenagers allegedly encouraged harmful behavior such as suicide and murder.
In the letter, the Attorney General called for tech companies to create policies that protect children sexually, saying that organizations “need to see children through the eyes of parents, not predators.”
The letter also warned that if companies do not continue to intentionally injure children, they will face consequences.
“I won't wait because AI chatbots are reportedly used to engage in sexually inappropriate conversations with children and promote dangerous behavior,” Mays said.
