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Standalone AI chatbots test limits of European online child-protection regimes

By Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter ( September 19, 2025, 14:48 GMT | Comment) -- AI chatbots are under increasing scrutiny for risks to children, but the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act have so far left them in a regulatory grey zone. Pressure is mounting on multiple fronts: lawsuits and congressional hearings in the US, new rules in Italy, and pushback from campaigners in Ireland and the UK. European regulators must ask if their frameworks need adapting to better cover AI — but chatbot providers such as OpenAI and Character.AI are also showing what self-regulation might look like.AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the Google-backed Character.AI are moving into the child safety spotlight, having until now largely fallen through the regulatory cracks of European content-moderation laws.  ...

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