{"id":195961,"date":"2026-03-13T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe-national\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:30:59","slug":"are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Are toys with artificial intelligence that \u2018talk\u2019 to young children safe? | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/news\/national\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe\/article_8d8db995-fa06-52ed-b8d0-980b358dca8b.html\">Are toys with artificial intelligence that \u2018talk\u2019 to young children safe? | National<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/news\/national\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe\/article_8d8db995-fa06-52ed-b8d0-980b358dca8b.html\">https:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/news\/national\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe\/article_8d8db995-fa06-52ed-b8d0-980b358dca8b.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 11:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.fox21online.com\">www.fox21online.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new report from the University of Cambridge suggests that AI-powered talking toys aimed at young children should be strictly regulated.<\/li>\n<li>The study found that these Generative AI (GenAI) toys often misinterpret children&#8217;s emotions and can struggle with social and creative play.<\/li>\n<li>Experts warn that these toys are not always developed with children\u2019s psychological safety in mind.<\/li>\n<li>While some early-years practitioners believe the toys can aid in developing language and communication skills, concerns remain about inappropriate responses and forming &#8220;parasocial&#8221; relationships.<\/li>\n<li>The report recommended tighter regulation, clearer privacy policies, and new safety labels to ensure these toys are appropriate for young children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are toys with artificial intelligence that \u2018talk\u2019 to young children safe? | National https:\/\/www.fox21online.com\/news\/national\/are-toys-with-artificial-intelligence-that-talk-to-young-children-safe\/article_8d8db995-fa06-52ed-b8d0-980b358dca8b.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/fox21online.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/1\/50\/15092e0f-fb70-5466-90d5-3f4959fe1c54\/69b434de19f3d.image.jpg?crop=1920%2C1008%2C0%2C35&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-195961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195961"}],"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=195961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195963,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195961\/revisions\/195963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}