The Teen-Safety Rules Target Platforms. AI Chatbots Aren't in Them.
Canada announced its Safe Social Media Act in June, requiring platforms to remove harmful content. The Conversation Canada's objection is about scope: neither that act nor the American intervention addresses AI chatbots, which leaves the rules aimed at an older generation of technology than the one teenagers are actually using. Measurement is running ahead of regulation. The OECD's PISA release in September focused on science and asked 15-year-olds how frequently they use AI for learning, how they use it and why. What's being collected there is use, not effect — which is still more than the regulation currently has a category for.
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The Canadian act is a content rule at heart: platforms have to remove harmful material.
And that's the mismatch the article is pointing at. The remedy is removal, but the intervention was never written to reach chatbots in the first place.