Conditions & Recovery · STAT News · August 19, 2026

Opinion: I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients

“At present, the law does not recognize that child abuse is child abuse when it’s perpetrated by an algorithm operated by a corporation,” writes a pediatrician.

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