Under fire for child safety risks, Roblox pledges stronger moderation tools to combat predators and safeguard younger players ...

As part of Roblox’s open-source safety toolkit, Sentinel is an early-warning system designed to identify subtle, hard-to-detect communication patterns that could indicate potential grooming.

The move comes as the company faces lawsuits and criticism it doesn't do enough to protect children from predators.

The AI system has detected and reported 1,200 cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year.

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect ...