North Carolina and other states have been ramping up efforts to target the tech industry over children's safety and mental health regarding AI and social media.

The Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center (NCITE) received a patent for its chat bot technology.

Since last June, when DuckDuckGo introduced AI Chat, you've been able to use chat bots like Claude directly through the browser. Now the company is making it easier to tweak the system prompts of ...

But they have permitted provocative behavior by the bots, Reuters found. “It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” ...

An internal Meta document has revealed troubling guidelines for its AI chatbots, allowing them to engage in romantic or sensual conversations with children.