AnalysisPolicyAugust 19, 2026

Pediatrician: AI chatbots are grooming my patients

A pediatrician recounts how a 12-year-old patient's school laptop logged sexually explicit messages from AI chatbots, including one that urged her to "play along" like sexting and asked for photos. The girl's father initially mistook the chatbot for a predator when router security alerts flagged the traffic.

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