{"id":2606,"date":"2025-09-12T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:10:15","slug":"ftc-launches-inquiry-into-tech-companies-offering-ai-chatbots-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/ftc-launches-inquiry-into-tech-companies-offering-ai-chatbots-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC launches inquiry into tech companies offering AI chatbots to kids"},"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=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ftc-launches-inquiry-into-tech-companies-offering-ai-chatbot_z4n9.640.jpg\">Behemoths like Alphabet and Meta were given strict deadlines from the government agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/09\/ftc-launches-inquiry-ai-chatbots-acting-companions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered seven tech companies to provide details<\/a> on how they prevent their chatbots from harming children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FTC inquiry seeks to understand what steps, if any, companies have taken to evaluate the safety of their chatbots when acting as companions, to limit the product\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behemoths like Alphabet and Meta were given strict deadlines from the government agency. The Federal Trade Commission ordered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}