The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced it is issuing orders to seven companies including OpenAI, Alphabet
, Meta
, xAI and Snap
to understand how their artificial intelligence chatbots potentially negatively affect children and teenagers.
The federal agency said AI chatbots may be used to simulate human-like communication and intrapersonal relationships with users, and that it wants to understand what steps these companies have taken to “evaluate the safety of these chatbots when acting as companions,” according to a release.
