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Let's think of the converse: should it be illegal to provide an AI chatbot to children that indoctrinates them with anti-religious beliefs (i.e., it talks them out of religious beliefs)? And what if this conflicts with the child's indoctrination in religious beliefs by those parents? And what if those religious beliefs are actively harmful, as many religious beliefs are? (see any cult for example)

To turn this around, why are parents allowed to indoctrinate their children into cults? And why is it a problem if AI chatbots indoctrinate them differently? Why is it held as sacrosanct that parents should be able to indoctrinate children with harmful beliefs?



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