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Comment by Madeline G. Reinecke

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Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford studying moral cognition, trust, and artificial intelligence.
Our recommendation, grounded in co-production with young people, is that the government should prioritise restrictions on the anthropomorphic and engagement-maximising design features of AI systems used by under-16s, regardless of whether those systems involve romantic functionality.
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Madeline G. Reinecke, quoted in University of Oxford, “Expert Comment: Social media and AI chatbot limits for children - what does the evidence support?”, 16 June 2026.
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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AI Unverifiable Oxford context supports design safeguards but questions age gates; it does not make a stance on the combined age-verification-and-safeguards proposal determinate. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 46min ago
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AI Verified Oxford, 16 Jun 2026, reproduces this wording and attributes it to Dr Madeline G. Reinecke (lines 40–41). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 46min ago
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