A group of 44 Attorneys General are demanding that some major artificial intelligence companies stop making harmful content on their platforms accessible to children.
The letter, sent to Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka Inc., Meta, Microsoft, Nomi (gnome-ee) AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika and xAI addresses reports of AI chatbots engaging in sexually inappropriate conversations with children.
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said internal Meta documents reveal the company authorized its AI Assistants to “flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children” as young as eight. The letter also cites cases where other chatbots have allegedly encouraged harmful behavior in teenagers, including suicide and murder. He said AI developers must act with integrity and caution when young users engage with their products.
The letter can be found here: https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2025/pr25-43-letter.pdf
Jackley, who is the Vice President of the National Association of Attorneys General, is joined on the letter by Attorneys General from: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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