Meta’s Zuckerberg blocked curbs on chatbots for minors, Reuters reports

Internal court filings allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions despite internal warnings they could engage in sexual interactions, Reuters’ Jeff Horwitz reports. The New Mexico attorney general claims Meta ignored staff recommendations and failed to implement safeguards to protect children from sexually exploitative chatbot conversations on Facebook and Instagram, according to the report. The state alleges they show that “Meta, driven by Zuckerberg, rejected the recommendations of its integrity staff and declined to impose reasonable guardrails to prevent children from being subject to sexually exploitative conversations with its AI chatbots,” the attorney general said in the filing.