As parents scurry to complete Christmas shopping this year, children's and consumer advocacy groups are warning they should avoid artificial intelligence toys, citing safety concerns.

Fairplay , a nonprofit children's safety organization, issued an advisory last month urging gift givers to avoid buying AI toys for children this holiday season. The group says that the toys, which can be found in a range of plushies, dolls, action figures, and kids' robots, are generally powered by an AI model and have been shown to harm children and teenagers.

"The serious harms that AI chatbots have inflicted on children are well-documented, including fostering obsessive use, having explicit sexual conversations, and encouraging unsafe behaviors, violence against others, and self-harm," Fairplay said.

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