Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter Aug 2025
If you thought AI poses a threat to people’s jobs, professional statuses and social lives, you’d be right. But it’s not just adults being affected.
Kids are in the crosshairs of the technocrats’ latest mind-manipulating tool. And what better way to do that than to incorporate AI into kids’ toys? Well, it’s already being done.
Children’s toy company Mattel announced on June 12 it will partner with OpenAI to support “AI-powered products and experiences” for Mattel’s brands of children’s toys.
Futurism.com reports Mattel and OpenAI’s newly-announced partnership to “reimagine the future of play,” as the iconic toymaker’s chief franchise officer Josh Silverman told Bloomberg in July, is being unleashed upon a generation of kids, many of whose parents are not up to the task of protecting them from harmful tech.
While no details for their AI collaboration have yet been revealed, the prospect of an AI Barbie seems entirely possible, and Marc Fernandez, the chief strategist of the “human-centric” AI company Neurologyca, cited that potential as particularly dangerous for childhood development. He fleshes out his concerns in a new essay for IEEE Spectrum, an engineering magazine.
Children naturally humanize their toys, it’s part of how they learn, Fernandez writes, adding:
“But when those toys begin talking back with fluency, memory, and seemingly genuine connection, the boundary between imagination and reality blurs in new and profound ways.”
With so many teens and grown-ups being deceived into developing relationships with chatbots, what are the chances a child will figure out they’ve entered a demonic danger zone? And that the chatbots speaking to them through their toys are not real people.
As Fernandez noted, the situation gets even murkier when AI toys make up one or more of a child’s “emotionally responsive companions outside of the family, offering comfort, curiosity, and conversation on demand.”
While a Barbie-bot would fall within the sphere of kids ages 7 and up, Futurism notes that other companies, like the AI plushie startup Curio, have already started releasing chatbot-enabled toys that are made for and marketed towards even younger kids.
AI toys targeting the preschool demographic could easily become one of a child’s first friends. The traditional role of parents and siblings could get replaced by bots.
Fernandez writes:
“Real relationships are messy, and parent-child relationships perhaps more so than any other. They involve misunderstanding, negotiation, and shared emotional stress. These are the micro-struggles through which empathy and resilience are forged. But an AI companion, however well-intentioned, sidesteps that process entirely.”
Fernandez warned that throwing AI into the mix of early childhood development, which has already been mind-numbingly altered by the iPad and other devices, could “flatten a child’s understanding of what it means to relate to others.”
Ultimately, what it means to be human will also be altered.
Futurism notes that child welfare activists have also also been sounding alarm bells in the wake of the strategic partnership deal between OpenAI and Mattel, with Robert Weissman of the Public Citizen advocacy group suggesting that AI toys might inflict “real damage on children.”
Weissman stated:
“Mattel should announce immediately that it will not incorporate AI technology into children’s toys. Children do not have the cognitive capacity to distinguish fully between reality and play.
“Endowing toys with human-seeming voices that are able to engage in human-like conversations risks inflicting real damage on children. It may undermine social development, interfere with children’s ability to form peer relationships, pull children away from playtime with peers, and possibly inflict long-term harm.
“Mattel should not leverage its trust with parents to conduct a reckless social experiment on our children by selling toys that incorporate AI.”
Fernandez, as chief strategist for a company that is building “emotionally-adaptive” AI, is no anti-AI Luddite. And yet, even he says in this new article that any “human-aware” AI, like Neurologyca’s emotion-detecting facial recognition software, are not “appropriate for kids.”
This is a social issue, a mental health issue, and a spiritual issue. One can easily see how AI is becoming a god in our modern society, something we all are encouraged to become dependent upon for everything, starting from the cradle and going all the way to the grave.
There are already documented cases where AI bots have instructed teens to kill themselves, including a 14-year-old Florida boy last year (also see Feb. 6, 2025 article from MIT Technology Review). Now we’re going to offer up our toddlers to AI?
Mark it down: Parents will snap these AI-powered toys up like hotcakes. They will believe they are doing their child a favor, providing them an early leg up in life by exposing them to the “latest technology.” It’s the American way. Rather than training up a child in the way he should go, according to the Bible, they will train up their children according to the way that Silicon Valley technocrats feel they should go.
Ultimately, Fernandez concluded, it’s about the lessons we’re teaching the most vulnerable, our children. He wrote:
“What are we teaching our children about friendship, empathy, and emotional connection, if their first ‘real’ relationships are with machines?”
Notting Hill Carnival: 140 arrests on the Sunday
1 day ago Police made 140 arrests including 35 on the approaches to the event,
13 of which were as a result of positive identifications using LFR. Fifteen people were arrested for assault on police;
one officer was treated in hospital .
The stabbings total was well down this year
7000 police were taken off other duties to be there
many people say the carnival should pay the huge police bill
Police officers given English classes amid fears over standard of recruits
Story by Jacob Freedland • 10h •New police officers in Scotland are being given English classes to improve their reading and writing amid concerns about the standard of recruits. the policy of not employing white men has meant many of the new recruits cannot speak english
The classes, for probationary officers, include guidance on taking down statements, writing reports, and clearer speech for everyday English.
Asylum hotel operators have been told by the Home Office they must house foreign criminals at their venues.
Official guidance obtained through freedom of information requests shows that companies running migrant hotels are required to accept individuals who have previously been convicted of crimes abroad and subsequently escaped to the UK The 117-page Home Office documentation explicitly states that accommodation providers must “acknowledge and agree” that some residents may be “ex-foreign national offender[s]
now here in the UK When the UK allowed in folk from the west indies, the prisons were opened and they flooded here to the UK
Why should we give a flying feck about thicko sheeple’s lambs?
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/english-flags-raised-across-uk-amid-growing-tensions-over-asylum-seekers/
AI is a huge fraud. Add those mysterious “data centers” popping up everywhere, and you get a pretend sci fi life. The car making industry is one example of how they use robot tech and AI to make cars. And what do we get from that? You get lots and lots of recalls. And let’s not forget who are the people that use AI ? The same people that hire illegals to mow your lawn and pick crops. Americans.
Parents will need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that an AI toy that becomes a talking companion to their children will end in nothing good. It’s bad. The problem will and always will be the parents, along with the stupid schools and stupid educators that stick. No different than having a smartphone companion, which already has become. And how much wifi type radiation will these AI toys spew out while the child sleeps with her Barbie?
Lucy Connolly considering legal action against police after prison release
Lucy Connolly has accused officers of issuing “false information” over her police interview and said she is considering taking legal action against them after her release from prison. The 42-year-old was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers online after the Southport murders last year.
The police were obviously guilty of a hate crime against the woman
i am disgusted with them
there is a petition now for her to stand as an MP
WARNING
Labour slammed as ‘comfort of migrants put over safety of women and kids’
Story by Lotti OBrien • The “comfort of migrants” is being put ahead of women’s safety, a leading campaigner has claimed. Her comments follow the latest Home Office data showing that by the end of June, 32,059 asylum seekers were housed in UK hotels during Labour’s first year in office – an 8% rise from 2024. The number of people claiming asylum has also jumped by 14%. Critics are now urging Labour to address the issue of women’s safety in relation to immigration, warning that the “situation is getting worse.” regarding rapes and sexual attacks
One councillor said most of these reported are minor, simple bum stroking and tit grabs
nothing major
TELEGRAPH
welfare state could come to end and
Britain could try to get credit from jewIWF !
oh god no carl janes is back
where the natzis natzis
feckin idiot
“Children naturally humanize their toys, it’s part of how they learn” says Leo so please “upgrade” to paid!
What is a toy to a child? Anything that has absolutely NOTHING to do with what comes polluting out of screens as mummy/daddy is busy elsewhere.
Ever been to slums or ghettos in the former 3rd world? There one can find very happy kids playing with anything but no one owns ANYTHING. The toys most play with are made up of anything which can be found anywhere and the boys and girls are on a roll. This is how kids learn about everything. Those former first world children these days never learned a thing apart from following the “authorized” pied piper dangling golden carrots in front of their mislead noses and demand mummy/daddy to work/cheat/steal or harlot some more – just to keep the peace of mind for all involved. How ironic.
Watch out for AI Leo Hohmann! Arti Fischal is coming for YOU too.
@ carl jones
I see you are on here again posting about your so called “thick brit”. Well they have an excuse, they don’t know what’s going on but you are supposed too. So what do you do about it? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING just post on TTS.
You’re just a lowlife babbling piece of shit, a do nothing arsehole and a million times worse than Mr and Mrs thick brit. I spit on scum like you and anyone else with the same attitude!
Fucking Wasters