{"id":187186,"date":"2026-02-13T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-for-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:20:10","slug":"consumer-advocates-push-for-ai-toy-safety-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-for-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer advocates push for AI toy safety transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/\">Consumer advocates push for AI toy safety transparency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/\">https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 15:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wsaw.com\">www.wsaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer advocates, including R.J. Cross of U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), are demanding greater transparency from toymakers regarding safety practices concerning AI-powered chatbots in children&#8217;s toys.<\/li>\n<li>Cross&#8217;s recent reports have highlighted unsafe responses from AI-powered toys, raising concerns among parents and experts about product safety and data practices.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. PIRG, along with 107 experts in childhood development, health professionals, and civil society organizations, has written a letter urging AI toymakers to commit to greater transparency in safety testing protocols.<\/li>\n<li>There is bipartisan support from Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal to examine and demand transparency about the testing protocols and data handling by AI toy companies.<\/li>\n<li>Cross advises parents to ensure that AI toys are used in shared spaces where interactions can be monitored and to look out for any AI features like built-in microphones or cameras that could raise privacy concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Long-term concerns persist about the potential negative impacts of AI toys on children\u2019s social development and safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer advocates push for AI toy safety transparency https:\/\/www.wsaw.com\/2026\/02\/13\/consumer-advocates-push-ai-toy-safety-transparency\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13 15:08:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wsaw-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/BDHKWSTULRHYLAGO6ZMP3GZ6OU.png?auth=91a9e65be15ef91af94bfe6f0e18815c45a6ca878b55c39d3e29465356d2c5e8&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187188,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187186\/revisions\/187188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}