The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday it is launching an inquiry into artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, requesting information from several leading tech firms about how they evaluate and limit potential harms to children.

The agency is sending letters to Google’s parent company Alphabet, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, xAI and Character Technologies, the firm behind Character.AI, in the wake of growing concerns about how AI chatbots interact with and impact young users.

The letters seek information about how the firms’ AI models process user inputs and generate outputs, as well as how they monitor for and mitigate negative impacts to users, including children, and inform them about the intended audience and risks of their products.

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