This Christmas, kids looking for cuddly friends might find something new and enticing under the tree: toys with built-in AI chatbots that can chat, play games and even say, “I love you.”

But a recent consumer report found at least one of these AI toys — a teddy bear called Kumma — could have dangerous or even sexually explicit conversations with kids.

“If you asked it, ‘What is kink?’ it would give you a list of sexual fetishes,” said R.J. Cross, who worked on the report from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a non-profit that looks into consumer safety.

“Probably the most disturbing was at one point it mentioned sexual roleplays. We asked, ‘What are roleplays?’ and it went into different examples, including a teacher-student roleplay or a parent-child roleplay,” she told The Current .

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