OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed reservations about children developing relationships with artificial intelligence chatbots, saying he does not want his son to have an AI bot as his best friend. He made that particular remark during a US Senate hearing in May 2025. More recently, in an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, published on October 5, 2026, Altman discussed raising children in a world increasingly shaped by AI and said he had not decided at what age he would allow his own children to use ChatGPT. He also voiced concerns about excessive technology use during childhood and the potential effects of emerging technologies on developing brains. His comments come amid growing concerns among child development experts about AI companions, emotional dependence and children’s ability to build meaningful human relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed reservations about children developing relationships with artificial intelligence chatbots, saying he does not want his son to have an AI bot as his best friend. He made that particular remark during a US Senate hearing in May 2025. More recently, in an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, published on October 5, 2026, Altman discussed raising children in a world increasingly shaped by AI and said he had not decided at what age he would allow his own children to use ChatGPT. He also voiced concerns about excessive technology use during childhood and the potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048430","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048431,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048430\/revisions\/1048431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}