CHARLESTON (WV News) — West Virginia joined a coalition of 43 other states on Monday in warning major artificial intelligence companies to stop harming children.

The letter, sent to Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Google, Luka Inc., Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, Open AI, Perplexity AI, Replika, and xAI, cites reports of AI chatbots engaging in sexually inappropriate conversations with children.

Internal Meta documents reportedly show the company allowed its AI Assistants to “flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children” as young as 8. Other chatbots allegedly encouraged harmful behavior in teenagers, including suicide and murder.

The attorneys general urged AI developers to adopt strict safety protocols and incorporate guardrails to prevent sexualizing children. They said companies must “

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