Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children's attachment

Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Prince Harry said AI companion chatbots are repeating social media's harm to children with technology that is "more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful." He noted lawsuits alleging AI companions contributed to teenagers' deaths and warned about recursive self-improvement at frontier labs.

• Harry: AI bots want children's attachment, not just attention
• Lawsuits allege AI companions contributed to teen deaths
• Harry says bans do nothing to address dangerous design
• He cited Anthropic's call for a mandatory kill switch