14 Sep 2025

Friendly chatbots: should they be trusted?

From Sunday Morning, 11:40 am on 14 September 2025

Chief Online Safety Officer for Netsafe Sean Lyons is back to talk about bots designed to act as though they are our friend, OpenAI scanning user messages for harmful content, and Headspace Invaders – a new tool to help young people recognise whether they are being manipulated online. 

France, 2024-05-07. Illustration, ChatGPT, for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a prototype chatbot using artificial intelligence, developed by OpenAI and specialising in the dialogue. Photograph by Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas.
France, 2024-05-07. Illustration, ChatGPT, pour Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, est un prototype d agent conversationnel, chatbot, utilisant l intelligence artificielle, developpe par OpenAI et specialise dans le dialogue. Photographie par Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas. (Photo by Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP)

Photo: Jean-Marc Barrere / Hans Lucas via AFP

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