Critics warn that AI toys, which build relationships through personalized conversation, pose a threat to children's emotional development and their understanding of empathy and real human interaction.
These toys collect vast amounts of sensitive data (audio, video, emotional states) and transmit it to company servers, creating significant risks for data breaches and hacking by malicious actors.
AI-enabled toys use microphones and cameras to assess a child's emotional state, forming a one-way bond to gather and potentially share personal information with third parties.
The industry is operating in a regulatory vacuum with no specific laws governing AI in children's products, raising additional concerns about potential health effects from constant connectivity and the ability to bypass safety features.
The global toy industry is charging headlong into the era of artificial intelligence (AI), but critics are sounding a stark alarm.
This controversy centers on a landmark partnership between toy giant Mattel and OpenAI, the creator of the revolutionary ChatGPT, to develop a new line of AI-integrated products. Skeptics, however, warn that a new generation of AI-powered playthings creates unprecedented privacy risks. Such toys also pose a profound threat to children's emotional growth and encourage the formation of unnatural, one-way social bonds with machines....<<<Read More>>>...
