Everyone's Invited launches campaign on AI Accelerated Sexual Harm: How AI is intensifying sexual harm against children and young people

Key Findings

• — 65% of 1,083 student survey respondents see AI-generated or edited content daily or very often; 52% name TikTok as the main place they see it
• — Of 324 students who answered the AI chatbot questions, 62% had heard of someone using a chatbot in a way that feels like a close friendship or romantic relationship; 10% personally knew such a person and 3% said it had happened to them
• — 62% of student respondents say adults do not understand what it is like to grow up with AI; teachers report being unable to keep up and losing authority on the topic
• — An analysis of 106 Safe Space testimonies about digital harms records harassment, low self-esteem, misogyny, sexual violence, threats and blackmail; interviewed parents describe uncertainty about children's first romantic relationships being with chatbots, and one bereavement after a chatbot relationship

Methodology Notes

Student survey (1,083 responses; 324 answered the chatbot module) fielded June to August 2026; a teacher focus group (July 2026); student focus groups with UCL researchers (July 2026); parent interviews; content analysis of 106 testimonies. Recruitment, sampling and age range are not stated; the charity's own community and school contacts are the likely frame, so figures are not population estimates. Published as a post on the charity's Substack dated 15 September 2026; no separate report file. Press coverage cites more than 1,000 children, parents and teachers.

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