new video loaded: AI videos on kids YouTube channels
YouTube’s algorithm promotes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos aimed at children. Our video journalist Arijeta Lajka explains why experts say these videos can affect their cognitive development and how parents can identify this type of content.
By Arijeta Lajka, Christina Shaman, Melanie Bencosme, June Kim and Luke Piotrowski
February 26, 2026