{"id":282414,"date":"2025-11-10T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:25:20","slug":"ai-chatbot-surveillance-tools-are-quietly-watching-kids-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282414\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Chatbot Surveillance Tools Are Quietly Watching Kids In Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Ahead of the new school year, a handful of tech companies issued grim warnings to American educators embracing artificial intelligence in the classroom: Chatbots, they said, could endanger students and lead to self-harm. Vigilance was paramount. \u201cThe risks of students using AI can literally be deadly,\u201d one company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/challenges\/student-safety-wellbeing\/ai-risks-and-safety-in-schools\/\" title=\"AI Is Here. But Is AI Safe for Students?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">cautioned<\/a>. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goguardian.com\/blog\/how-goguardian-beacon-is-tackling-the-hidden-risks-of-ai-chat-platforms\" title=\"How GoGuardian Beacon is Tackling the Hidden Risks of AI Chat Platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">noted<\/a>: \u201cStudent lives depend on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The \u201cit\u201d is the software those companies are selling \u2014 tools that themselves use AI to scan students\u2019 conversations with chatbots and alert adults to potential danger. Across the US, teachers and administrators are increasingly turning to companies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goguardian.com\/\" title=\"GoGuardian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">GoGuardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedsystems.com\/\" title=\"LightSpeed Systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Lightspeed Systems<\/a> for real-time monitoring of student-bot conversations, according to interviews with more than a dozen educators. The goal is to catch early warning signs of severe outcomes, including teen suicides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the new school year, a handful of tech companies issued grim warnings to American educators embracing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,13564,8543,181,507,28,11637,2831,22334,526,1303,514,7271,74,6148,107820],"class_list":["post-282414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-delaware","tag-dispatch","tag-education","tag-michigan","tag-privacy","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-weekend-edition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}