2025-09-12
If chatbots can enable suicide, as in Adam Raine's case through validation, technical help, and social isolation, what's stopping the same subversive pattern from enabling murder in vulnerable youth? The @FTC is right to investigate these issues.
Bloomberg
The US FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to turn over information about how their AI chatbots impact children and teens
Meta, OpenAI, Musk's XAI Among Targets Chris Morris / Quartz : Federal agency plans to examine the mental health risks of AI chatbots from OpenAI, Snap, Meta, and more Ian Stark / ...
2025-02-21
One month in, Chair @AFergusonFTC keeps hitting bullseyes. We are spoiled to have him and @BrendanCarrFCC helming their commissions.
Bloomberg
US FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson announces an inquiry into “Big Tech censorship”, which he calls “un-American” and “potentially illegal”, and seeks public comment
including ‘shadow banning’ Sean Burch / The Wrap : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big Tech Inquiry for ‘Bullying’ and Censorship Sean Burch / TVNewsCheck : Trump-Appointed FTC ...