{
  "id": 18318,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07902v1",
  "title": "Beyond \"I Can't Help With That\": How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas, Alexandra Chouldechova, Eugenia Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T04:00:10.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-hci",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.HC",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18318",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07902v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}