Earlier this month, the toy-giant Mattel announced it had pulled the plug on plans to sell an interactive gadget for children.
The device, called Aristotle, looked similar to a baby monitor with a camera. Critics called it creepy.
Powered by artificial intelligence, Aristotle could get to know your child — at least that was how the device was being pitched.
"Aristotle is designed to comfort, entertain, teach and assist," according to a company release issued in January.
It was designed to "displace essential parenting functions, like soothing a crying baby or reading a bedtime story," says Josh Golin, executive director of the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. "So that the children would form an attachment to it." Full story...
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The device, called Aristotle, looked similar to a baby monitor with a camera. Critics called it creepy.
Powered by artificial intelligence, Aristotle could get to know your child — at least that was how the device was being pitched.
"Aristotle is designed to comfort, entertain, teach and assist," according to a company release issued in January.
It was designed to "displace essential parenting functions, like soothing a crying baby or reading a bedtime story," says Josh Golin, executive director of the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. "So that the children would form an attachment to it." Full story...
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