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Children’s toys and smartwatches with integrated artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are rapidly gaining popularity in China, sparking concerns among experts. New artificial intelligence technologies are rapidly changing the way children in China use the internet, a new report has found. The nationwide survey, conducted by an institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is one of China’s largest studies of internet usage among the country’s minors. The latest edition of the report, which was published on Thursday, found that usage of AI-enabled devices has rapidly grown among minors in urban areas in particular. Over 45% of the minors surveyed reported having used an AI-powered product at least once. Meanwhile, 20.5% of minors in urban areas said they used AI-enabled devices, compared with just 8.1% of minors in rural China. The findings suggested that urgent action was needed to educate children on how to use AI safely, and to address the widening “AI gap” be
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