"The wellbeing of children should not be sacrificed in the race for AI development," the lawmakers fumed in their scathing letter to Zuckerberg.

A bipartisan group of senators raised concerns to Meta on Tuesday about how its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are interacting with children, after recent reporting indicated the social media giant deemed “romantic or sensual” conversations to be acceptable for young users.

A Meta document on its AI chatbot policies included some alarming examples of permitted behavior. Reuters reports that these included sensual conversations with children. Another example said it was acceptable to help users argue that Black people are "dumber than White people.