STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Opinion: I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients “At present, the law does not recognize that child abuse is child abuse when it’s perpetrated by an algorithm operated by a corporation,” writes a pediatrician. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-chatbots-children-grooming-mental-health/ statnews.com