Beyond "I Can't Help With That": How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety
Youth increasingly turn to AI chatbots for social and emotional support, raising concerns about how these systems respond, especially in high-stakes situations. However, existing child safety evaluations of AI lack grounding in real-world harms that youth experience, rely on unvalidated assumptions about what counts as an appropriate output (e.g., refusal), and typically focus on detecting adversarial prompts or surface-level harms in outputs only. Thus, these evaluations can fail to detect resp
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Published: 8 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Children & education
Retrieved: 11 August 2026
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