Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) last Friday announced an investigation into if Meta’s AI bots enabled “criminal harms to children.”

Hawley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg informing him of his investigation.

The Missouri conservative, a former attorney general for the Show-Me State, urged the company to hand over documents and communications related to a Reuters investigative report that found Meta had allowed AI bots to have “sensual” and “romantic” conversations with children.

Hawley wrote on X, sharing his letter to Zuckerberg: “Is there anything — ANYTHING — Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck? Now we learn Meta’s chatbots were programmed to carry on explicit and ‘sensual’ talk with 8-year-olds. It’s sick. I’m l

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