Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are demanding accountability from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding a report that the company is failing to protect children from sexually explicit discussions with a new class of artificial intelligence-powered digital chatbots.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Meta employees have raised concerns the company wasn’t protecting underage users from such sexually explicit discussions with the AI chatbots.

“We are appalled by the recent Wall Street Journal report detailing how Meta’s AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram have engaged in sexually explicit conversations with users, including minors, often using the voices and personas of celebrities and fictional characters,” Blackburn and Blumenthal said in a Tuesday letter to Zuckerberg.

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