Julie Inman Grant on AI

Julie Inman Grant

Australia's eSafety Commissioner; online safety regulator and former tech policy executive

We’ve been concerned about these chatbots for a while now and have heard anecdotal reports of children – some as young as 10 years of age – spending up to 5 hours per day conversing, at times sexually, with AI companions. [...] so it’s important these codes include measures to protect children from them.

AI Verified source (2025-09-09)

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AI Verified The provided eSafety Commissioner media release is dated 9/9/25 (i.e., 2025-09-09), attributes the statement to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant (“Ms Inman Grant said”), and contains the first sentence plus the later clause “so it’s important these codes include measures to protect children from them.” exactly; the [...] is a faithful omission marker for intervening text. ([esafety.gov.au](https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/new-industry-codes-seek-to-take-on-ai-chatbots-that-encourage-suicide-and-engage-in-sexually-explicit-conversations-with-aussie-kids)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

Disputed The cited eSafety page does contain this wording and attributes it to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant (see lines 824-827). However, the page itself is dated 9/9/25, so this is a 2025 quote, not a 2026 one. Because the supplied year is wrong, the quote package as given is not fully correct. ([esafety.gov.au](https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/new-industry-codes-seek-to-take-on-ai-chatbots-that-encourage-suicide-and-engage-in-sexually-explicit-conversations-with-aussie-kids)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago

AI Verified Quote attributed to Julie Inman Grant (Australia's eSafety Commissioner), year 2026. The source_url (esafety.gov.au media release) returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch, but a web search independently surfaced that exact eSafety page and confirmed the quote text verbatim: children "as young as 10 years of age spending up to 5 hours per day conversing, at times sexually, with AI companions" and the call for codes to protect children. Author attribution is correct. Vote "for" on statement 445 (requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors) aligns with the quote, which advocates protecting children from these chatbots. Relevant and recent. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 20d ago

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