Comment by Jenny Radesky

My biggest concern is attachment and relationships. Kids are wired to want to attach to other humans. It's how they learn their sense of self, what a healthy relationship feels like. And the AI companions are exploiting this. [...] The concerns are not just the relational concerns. There's also safety — giving bad advice, giving unsafe advice, the sycophancy where you're leading kids down a rabbit hole of different beliefs and sexual interactions. So we need many guardrails. Unverified source (2026)