{"id":1002465,"date":"2026-04-11T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002465"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:23:00","slug":"ai-chatbots-offer-children-harm-as-if-it-were-help-says-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/ai-chatbots-offer-children-harm-as-if-it-were-help-says-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots offer children harm as if it were help, says activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one,&#8221; Imran Ahmed, who heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told a disinformation conference this week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No society should build machines that can meet a child in their loneliest moment and offer them harm as if it were help,&#8221; Ahmed told the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable. &#8220;Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one,&#8221; Imran Ahmed, who heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told a disinformation conference this week. &#8220;No society should build machines that can meet a child in their loneliest moment and offer them harm as if it were help,&#8221; Ahmed told the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}