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Chris Murphy: “These stories that you're hearing of children taking their…”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Sens. Hawley, Blumenthal Lead Bipartisan Briefing on AI Chatbots

Published | Video Starts at 32:31

A chilling study from just a few months ago showed that today 2/3 of kids, teenagers in this country are regularly using these chatbots. One third of children today report having deep intimate relationships with these chatbots. These stories that you're hearing of children taking their life or engaging in life altering self Harm, this is not the exception. This is becoming a norm. And if we don't do something, it is going to get worse. I had one of the big AI CEOs in my office just a few weeks ago crowing to me about how much more addictive the chat bots were going to be. (32:31–32:44)

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