Children were split about confiding in the chatbot, with about half willing to share secrets or ask advice and half not¶

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q2 i? Post-survey responses showed roughly half of children willing to confide in AMA and half not, reflecting varied caution toward AI. → Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin 2025

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Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin 2025¶

Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin. (2025). Ask Me Anything: Exploring children's attitudes toward an age-tailored AI-powered chatbot. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14217 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.14217

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In the post-survey of the school study, children were asked whether they would tell AMA a secret or ask its advice; "about half being willing to confide in it and half not", with 7th graders' responses ranging from distrust to openness.

"Children showed more caution towards AMA, with about half being willing to confide in it and half not (Figure 9)."

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