Do you think autistic 17 year olds should be restricted in their ability to access the world's knowledge, as compared to their allistic peers? How do you envision that working the next year, when they're 18 years old? More broadly, how do you justify blaming the parents? Do you figure companies should be allowed to market a service to teenagers (or the general populous) which suggests they harm or kill themselves?

There's degrees to it, regardless of them being 18 y/o, I assume he's not aware enough to emancipate, therefore, there's reasonable cause for the parents to act and block here (The parents may be aware enough to make the call, I guess that would fall under their responsability)

Him being at all on the spectrum means a bit less than the actual degree at which he is, I may be on it as well (Albeit slightly), had unrestricted internet access, and while I'm not confident on saying I would do it differently than what my parents did, I have many arguments for limiting some of it even for an aware and allistic kid

It's a large scale problem, I can't expect the parents to know the intricacies of everything on the internet, but I'd expect them to try and be aware of those parts their kid does take interest to a degree their competency allows

Regardless, while I've always considered this kind of chatbot something a child should be strictly kept away from, because you can't know when it will tell a child to do this, or to glue pizza for a less dramatic example

I'm okay with it not being marketable to children, but the steps neccessary to limit them further than that make me uneasy