Study

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall conduct a study regarding AI-enabled toys that assesses— (1) the risk of injury (including physical, mental, emotional, and social injury) to children in different stages of development from AI-enabled toys and artificial intelligence chatbots; (2) educational outcomes resulting from using AI-enabled toys outside of an educational setting; (3) the adoption and utilization of parental controls on AI-enabled toys by consumers; (4) the legal and ethical boundaries of marketing artificial intelligence chatbots and AI-enabled toys to children; (5) whether any evidence relating to the potential risks to children posed by AI-enabled toys warrants temporarily suspending the marketing and sale of such toys to children; (6) actions that Congress, Federal agencies, developers, and manufacturers can take to protect children from any risks and harms associated with AI-enabled toys; and (7) any other issue regarding AI-enabled toys the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determines to be appropriate.