Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots
THE SO WHAT
Evidence that children anthropomorphize LLM chatbots raises a new category of design and policy questions — these systems are being treated as social actors, not tools. If your product touches minors, you need explicit guardrails, disclosure, and interaction patterns tuned for developmental psychology, not just generic safety filters.
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