The awkwardness of the teen years meets technology in the sex-ed chat bot. There is no real way for a chat bot to talk to a teen about their emotional readiness for intimacy. That takes conversations that can happen at the most random even inopportune times - with someone they trust.
If that person is older and possessed of life experience even better. Given so many alternate ways to get answer to be the more tactical questions of the day - such as this bot may answer quite well, there is no incentive to get into awkward territory.
This effort to meet teens where they are is well-intentioned but comes at the cost of human communication and mental growth. When an elderly relative talks to a teen about the mistakes they made when they were young, their stories stick. Maybe the bot could be the best of both worlds - take the tactical questions and continue to nudge the kids to talk to adults in their lives too.
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