AI-powered children’s toys are here, but are they safe?

Online chatbots can pose risks for adults, from triggering delusions in a small number of cases to hallucinating made-up information. OpenAI’s GPT-4o has been the model of choice for some AI toys, and using a large language model (LLM) in children’s toys has raised safety questions as to whether children should be exposed to such toys and with what protections toy makers should implement.