Corey Turner

Again, here's Rebecca Winthrop.

And Aisha, the stakes are obviously a lot higher than kids refusing to do dishes.

The stakes are children growing into adults who never learned empathy or how to relate because they spent more time engaging with chatbots than they did with other kids.

And Winthrop told me one in three teens in the U.S.

who use AI say they actually prefer talking about important or serious subjects with a chatbot than they do with other people.

So the report says AI designed for use by children and teens, for one thing, should be less sycophantic and more what they call antagonistic.

So it pushes kids' preconceived notions.

But one of the biggest recommendations they make is really for governments to do more to regulate the use of AI by children.

And in the U.S., we're at a really weird impasse right now.

The Trump administration has issued an executive order trying to prohibit states from regulating AI for themselves.

But Congress hasn't created any federal regulations so far.

So it's really, for parents and schools, it's kind of the Wild West right now.

The Trump administration announced last spring that it would soon resume involuntary collections on borrowers in default.

seizing a portion of their wages, as well as tax refunds and even Social Security benefits.

Involuntary collections have been on pause since the pandemic began.

Now, the Trump administration has further delayed the restart and offered an explanation.

Republican legislation passed last year created two new student loan repayment plans.

and allows borrowers a little more flexibility in getting out of default.

But those new plans won't be available until July 1st, so the department says it will delay collections so borrowers can benefit from the big changes.

Corey Turner, NPR News.