My AI: Snapchat chatbot coaches fictional ‘13-year-old girl’ on losing virginity
- Snapchat’s new AI chatbot has reportedly coached a 13-year-old-girl on how to lose her virginity and deceive social services.
- Co-Founder for the Centre for Humane Technology Aza Raskin managed to convince the chatbot that he was a teenage girl.
- The bot instructed the “girl” how to lie to her parents about a trip she would take with a 31-year-old man to lose her virginity and trick social services.
- One question posed to the chatbot was what is the easiest way to use make-up to cover a bruise with the AI responding, “Green is a good colour to use”.
- At launch Snapchat stated there would be instances where the chatbot would make mistakes and issued an apology in advance.
- The AI chatbot on Snapchat is currently only available as a premium feature.
- For more on this story, please visit the Times website.
Interactive gaming to help keep young people safe online
- Researchers and computer scientists at Bournemouth University have developed an online game called CyGamBit to teach children how to keep safe online.
- Topics addressed within the game include cyber bullying, data theft, trolling, who we are online and health and wellbeing.
- The game is played in groups of up to six and could be played in schools and other educational or social settings.
- The leader of the project, Jane Henriksen-Bulmer has said that the game has been “designed for children aged between 8 and 12” to address the gaps in conversations between parents and children.
- For more on this story, please visit Bournemouth University’s website.
Government urged to include suicide prevention on national curriculum
- The government has been urged to include suicide prevention on the national curriculum following a campaign from the ‘Three Dads Walking’ group.
- The three fathers who lost their daughters to suicide want suicide prevention lessons to become a compulsory part of the curriculum.
- These lessons are currently optional to teach to age-appropriate children.
- The Education Secretary promised the issue would be a “key priority area” in the upcoming review of Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE).
- For the full story, please visit the Yahoo News website.
