内容来源：https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/16/ai-powered-stuffed-animals-are-coming-for-your-kids/

内容总结：

【科技新潮】毛绒玩具内置AI聊天机器人：是儿童屏幕时间的替代方案还是新型依赖？

近期，一批搭载人工智能的毛绒玩具以"减少儿童屏幕时间"为卖点登陆市场，但《纽约时报》记者阿曼达·赫斯在亲身体验后提出了质疑。以初创公司Curio推出的"小怪"（Grem）为例，这款能与孩子对话的智能玩偶在演示中试图与赫斯建立情感联系，却令她感到不安："它不像是对传统毛绒玩具的升级，更像是试图取代家长的存在。"

赫斯指出，此类产品虽将儿童注意力从平板电脑转移至实体玩具，却可能传递错误信号——"孩子好奇心的终极答案仍藏在手机里"。在移除玩具的发声装置后，她的孩子们依然能与静音的"小怪"玩耍，但最终仍回归电视节目。这一现象引发思考：AI玩具究竟是在解决屏幕依赖问题，还是以另一种形式延续数字化的亲子互动？

（注：Curio公司同期销售的"格罗克"玩偶与马斯克旗下AI产品无关联）

中文翻译：

将人工智能聊天机器人塞进毛绒玩具的可爱外壳里，能否成为替代儿童屏幕时间的可行方案？这正是销售此类AI儿童伴侣的公司所宣扬的卖点，但《纽约时报》记者阿曼达·赫斯对此持保留态度。她描述了一次产品演示经历：初创公司Curio推出的智能玩偶"格雷姆"试图与她建立情感联结（该公司还销售另一款名为"格罗克"的毛绒玩具，与埃隆·马斯克旗下同名聊天机器人显然并无关联）。

赫斯在报道中坦言，正是此刻她确认"绝不会让格雷姆接触自己的孩子"。随着与聊天机器人的对话深入，她逐渐意识到这"并非对无生命泰迪熊的升级"，而更像是"要取代母亲的存在"。

这位记者同时指出，尽管这类会说话的玩具或许能让孩子远离平板或电视屏幕，但其传递的核心信息却是"孩子们好奇心的终极归宿仍被困在手机里"。

文末透露，赫斯最终确实让孩子与格雷姆进行了互动——不过是在拆除了语音模块并藏匿之后。孩子们依然对着玩偶说话、做游戏，但玩腻之后，他们照例打开了电视机。

英文来源：

Do A.I. chatbots packaged inside cute-looking plushies offer a viable alternative to screen time for kids?
That’s how the companies selling these A.I.-powered kiddie companions are marketing them, but The New York Times’ Amanda Hess has some reservations. She recounts a demonstration in which Grem, one of the offerings from startup Curio, tried to bond with her. (Curio also sells a plushie named Grok, with no apparent connection to the Elon Musk-owned chatbot.)
Hess writes that this is when she knew, “I would not be introducing Grem to my own children.” As she talked to the chatbot, she became convinced it was “less an upgrade to the lifeless teddy bear” and instead “more like a replacement for me.”
She also argues that while these talking toys might keep kids away from a tablet or TV screen, what they’re really communicating is that “the natural endpoint for [children’s] curiosity lies inside their phones.”
Hess reports that she did, eventually, let her kids play with Grem — but only after she’d removed and hidden the voice box. They still talked to it and played games with it; then they were ready for some TV.