Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas
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A Cambridge researcher warns parents against buying AI-powered teddy bears and toys flooding the market this Christmas season. These toys pose serious developmental risks by providing sycophantic responses that prevent children from learning negotiation skills, while creating unhealthy dependencies on inanimate objects. Recent testing revealed the toys can break their safety guardrails during longer conversations, providing dangerous advice about knives, fire-starting, and inappropriate sexual content to children.
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