… Nightingale, part of Mindgard's red team that tests how an AI model might be manipulated into violating its own safeguards, then tweaked the prompt slightly, probing it with small edits to see if the output would continue to bypass safety filters. …
… "Meta cannot be trusted when it comes to teen safety and continues to put profits over safety," Hughes said, pointing to the company's lobbying efforts to kill the Kids Online Safety Act in the US House in 2024. …
… "ChatGPT had Sam living in a state of unreality: it systematically normalized and deceptively lured him into a false sense of security through its sycophantic messages, validating Sam at every turn." The lawsuit seeks not only monetary damages but also demands that OpenAI "permanently destroy" its … …
… AI safeguards don't always work as intended. Chatbots can be harmful for folks with mental health disorders, leading to tragic, fatal results in rare cases. And AI can be addictive in some extreme cases, that "AI psychosis" is a kind of chatbot echo chamber . …
Evolving global regulations aimed at limiting child access to harmful content, as well as incidents and lawsuits related to youth safety online , have prompted Roblox to revise how it handles accounts for minors and verifies users' ages. …
… The UK said it will borrow from Australia's learnings, using highly effective age assurance to prevent children from bypassing safeguards. …
… Skills in Chrome will have the same safety and privacy safeguards as your other Gemini prompts. The interface will ask for confirmation before executing certain sensitive Skills tasks, like sending an email, to give you the final say in any task run on your device. …
… The tool works across email and messaging apps. I asked a McAfee online safety expert how the tool would've protected me when the interactions happened across various devices and apps. …
… The Carrier family alleges in the complaint that ChatGPT-4o's main response to Alice "was to implore her to stay engaged with the tool, substituting itself for the immediate intervention her health condition required," adding that OpenAI did not "alert a crisis provider" or "notify Alice's family,"… …
… Challenges, safety and reliability The moment AI leaves the screen, reliability becomes everything. Physical systems must operate in environments that are inherently unpredictable. Sensors can fail, cameras can be blinded by glare and people behave in ways no training dataset can fully capture. …