Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays?

“Ed” was supposed to be an AI-powered “educational friend” for Los Angeles schoolkids, telling them how to do their homework, what time school let out and even where to go to college. But the flopped ...

AI chatbots may facilitate dangerous behaviors by children and adolescents, but most parents are poorly prepared to protect ...

Families are grappling with so many issues related to technology, and AI is developing so quickly that it can be hard to keep ...

Meanwhile, a troublingly high percentage of parents say they have not talked to their teenagers about AI chatbots, the Pew ...

Our children deserve better than computer code companionship. They deserve us, writes guest columnist Travis T. Apgar, Vice President for Student Affairs at Case Western Reserve University in ...

Listening to the AI assistant fail to solve my problem, I thought there’s another job I’m glad my children didn’t train for: ...

At the same time, AI chatbots can potentially provide young people with an opportunity to practice and build social-emotional skills in a low-stakes environment. For example, students can rehearse ...

The risks of young people forming ’emotionally dependent relationships’ with AI chatbots is expected to come into focus during the consultation.