Mathers
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks

www.cam.ac.uk

external-link
message-square
11
fedilink
164
external-link

Cambridge University Researchers: AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks

www.cam.ac.uk

Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
message-square
11
fedilink
Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children
www.cam.ac.uk
external-link
The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    These should not exist.

    The data privacy and ethical issues alone should be a non starter.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    3 days ago

    Better to ban them entirely.

    • JayTreeman@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      30
      ·
      3 days ago

      Could you imagine the trauma from your teddy that speaks to you like a person and at some point your parents throw it out because it’s just a teddy and the kid needs to get over their ‘imaginary friend’.

      Adults are having trouble with this. It’s horrifying that they’re forcing it on children

  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    How about no to AI in toys all together. My kid doesn’t need a fucking chatbot, that’s what the therapists are for.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    3 days ago

    Better Idea, Ban AI altogether.

  • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    3 days ago

    There was an article yesterday moaning about how restricting access to kids “infringed on their right to receive information”

    I missed my chance not telling them to fuck right off

  • architect@thelemmy.club
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Grimes is involved with one of these that has a spaceship named Grok and we are, apparently, supposed to ignore that coincidence.

  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    Anyone remember the demonic Furby.

    https://youtu.be/IihNhU8Oz8Y

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    Bring back Teddy Ruxpin with tapes!!!

  • muhyb@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    I’m not from TNT Radio but that’s something El Presidente would use.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Toys with any electronics are bad for children, period.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 2.86K users / day
  • 9.45K users / week
  • 17K users / month
  • 31K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 82.7K subscribers
  • 13K Posts
  • 478K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.4
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org