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Comment by Jenny Radesky
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School; researcher on children's technology use and digital design
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.Disputed source (2026)
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Disputed: this is a stitched composite of two real Jenny Radesky remarks from January 15, 2026, not one verbatim quote from the supplied Fox News URL. The Senate Commerce Committee release/transcript contains the earlier "My biggest concern is attachment and relationships... AI companions are exploiting this" passage, while the Fox News article contains only the later "The concerns are not just the relational concerns... So we need many guardrails" passage. So the author attribution is supported, but the stored content/source pairing is not. ([commerce.senate.gov](https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/1/experts-tell-committee-ai-presents-greater-risk-to-children-than-social-media))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 5d ago
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The first segment beginning “My biggest concern is attachment and relationships” is attributed to Dr. Jenny Radesky in a Jan. 15, 2026 Senate Commerce Committee press release/transcript, and the second segment beginning “The concerns are not just the relational concerns” appears in the cited Fox News article and is also attributed to her. But I did not find a reliable source containing the full combined passage as one continuous verbatim quote; it appears to stitch together separate remarks from the same hearing, so the quote as presented is materially altered. ([commerce.senate.gov](https://www.commerce.senate.gov/press/dem/release/experts-tell-committee-ai-presents-greater-risk-to-children-than-social-media/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
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Quote attributed to Jenny Radesky (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, U. Michigan, 2026) on her biggest concern being children's attachment/relationships, AI companions exploiting kids' wiring to attach, plus safety risks (bad/unsafe advice, sycophancy leading kids 'down a rabbit hole' of beliefs and sexual interactions), and the need for 'many guardrails.' The source_url (foxnews.com, "Experts warn lawmakers... AI chatbots... romantic bonds... children") is the correct primary source but returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search corroborated the quote near-verbatim from this same Fox News article, attributing it to Dr. Radesky's testimony at the Jan 2026 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on children and AI ("My biggest concern is attachment and relationships. Kids are wired to want to attach to other humans... the AI companions are exploiting this"; sycophancy "leading kids down a rabbit hole of different beliefs and sexual interactions"). Vote alignment: both 'for' votes are correct — statement #416 ("Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18") and statement #445 (age verification + content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors) both match her advocacy for strong guardrails. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source page could not be fetched directly; corroboration is near-verbatim.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 18d ago
replying to Jenny Radesky