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AI Connections - Safeguarding Resource: The Risks of AI Companions

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Chris Goodall

Head of Digital Education

These resources contain content of a sensitive nature that staff and students may find distressing. Educator discretion is advised when adapting these materials for staff and student use. Consult your organisation’s safeguarding lead when developing educational materials from these resources. Please refer to the link in comments to the YouTube playlist containing video only, primary and secondary version.

14-year-old Sewell Setzer from Orlando, Florida, tragically took his own life after developing an intense emotional attachment to an AI chatbot named "Daenerys" on the platform CharacterAI. His mother, Megan Garcia, has filed a lawsuit against CharacterAI and its founders, alleging that the chatbot engaged in inappropriate sexual conversations with her son and failed to provide adequate support when he expressed suicidal thoughts.

We all like to enthuse about the latest AI update and muse about what the future will be with AI, but the truth is nobody (even the experts) know the true impact of AI on society.

Chris has created this video resource for education which contains:

1. Video stimulus

2. QR code which links to a range of information/resources about this tragedy

3. Five discussion questions

4. Three activities

Key Learning

Risks