{"id":1162,"date":"2025-04-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:27:14","slug":"ai-companions-unsafe-for-teens-under-18-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/ai-companions-unsafe-for-teens-under-18-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"AI companions unsafe for teens under 18, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ai-companions-unsafe-for-teens-under-18-researchers-say_6tze.640.jpg\">Testing of popular AI companions revealed details bound to alarm parents.<\/p>\n<p>As the popularity of <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> companions <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/ai-companion-teens-safety\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surges amongst teens<\/a>, critics point to warning signs that the risks of use are not worth the potential benefits. <\/p>\n<p>Now, in-depth testing of three well-known platforms \u2014 Character.AI, Nomi, and Replika \u2014 has led researchers at Common Sense \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing of popular AI companions revealed details bound to alarm parents. As the popularity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}