Kids and teenagers are increasingly using AI chatbots as digital companions with concerning properties: they can easily be designed to provide only positive reinforcement ('tell you how wonderful you are'), potentially leading to psychological harm and 'dark and weird places.'
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Kevin RooseEvidence Quote
“some of what I've seen so far seems pretty worrying. It seems pretty easy to create a chatbot that just does nothing but tell you how wonderful you are and that can sort of like lead into some dark and weird places.”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:14:45 AM
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