California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys (techcrunch.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senator Steve Padilla (D-CA) introduced a bill [dubbed SB 867] on Monday that would place a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of toys with AI chatbot capabilities for kids under 18. The goal is to give safety regulators time to develop regulations to protect children from "dangerous AI interactions."
"Chatbots and other AI tools may become integral parts of our lives in the future, but the dangers they pose now require us to take bold action to protect our children," Senator Padilla said in a statement. "Our safety regulations around this kind of technology are in their infancy and will need to grow as exponentially as the capabilities of this technology do. Pausing the sale of these chatbot-integrated toys allows us time to craft the appropriate safety guidelines and framework for these toys to follow." [...] "Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on," Padilla said.
"Chatbots and other AI tools may become integral parts of our lives in the future, but the dangers they pose now require us to take bold action to protect our children," Senator Padilla said in a statement. "Our safety regulations around this kind of technology are in their infancy and will need to grow as exponentially as the capabilities of this technology do. Pausing the sale of these chatbot-integrated toys allows us time to craft the appropriate safety guidelines and framework for these toys to follow." [...] "Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on," Padilla said.
How about (Score:3)
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Communist.
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Huh?
so, say, a doctor or parent who wants to protect their children is a communist? All of us?
Oh, well, the Revolution must have come, and I missed it!
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I'm less sure of that.
Weighing the benefit against the theoretical damage it does to society, I think the Calculus is probably on the positive end of the scale.
The US Customary measurement system on the other hand is concentrated pure evil.
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You can't prove a negative...
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"Zero" is an irrational requirement. Make that "no significant overall" and you get something with a connection to reality.
Re: Malibu Stacy (Score:2)
Math class to better than IEEE double precision is tough!
Including phones? (Score:4, Insightful)
Does "toys with AI chatbot capabilities" include iPhones?
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Not broad enough. I think iPhones should count as kids toys. And anyone under 95 ought to count as a "kid'.
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Doesn't COPA alread cover this? (Score:2)
Bummer⦠(Score:2)
CA strikes again. (Score:2)
What difference will it make? (Score:3)
Ban it in toys, the AI companies will make deals with schools to be certain they're still sucking up all your kid's time, attention, and data. And we all know they won't be banning AI use in schools until it's proven safe. This is how tech companies have indoctrinated kids for two generations now. Flood the schools with the tech, get the kids used to it, hope they take it with them when they move on to the business world.