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AI companies likened to drug dealers experimenting on children

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A Mastodon post criticizes AI companies for treating children as subjects in a large-scale experiment. The author likens the widespread, free distribution of AI tools to children and students to a new drug, highlighting concerns about potential addiction and unknown side effects. This approach is framed as a business model focused on creating dependency, with the author referencing a Rand Corporation report on the rise of AI use for homework amid growing concerns. AI

IMPACT Raises concerns about the ethical implications of AI deployment on young users and the potential for addictive design in educational tools.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece expressing concerns about AI's impact on children, framed as commentary rather than a direct news event.

Read on Mastodon — sigmoid.social →

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AI companies likened to drug dealers experimenting on children

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    We have this new drug that makes your kids less lonely as it makes them talk to an imaginary friend. It will also make them do their homework more efficiently.

    We have this new drug that makes your kids less lonely as it makes them talk to an imaginary friend. It will also make them do their homework more efficiently. Unfortunately, we don’t know yet whether it has any side effects and it could be addictive. So, we give it away for free…

    LINKS rand.org/…/student-use-of-ai-for-homework…

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