On Thursday, Roblox announced Roblox Sentinel, an artificial intelligence system that's designed to flag inappropriate messages in its chat feature.

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.

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 ...

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Roblox says the system has led the company to submit 1,200 reports of potential attempts at child exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the first half of 2025.

Roblox is open sourcing its AI-based Sentinel tech designed to detect grooming or child endangerment by identifying chat patterns. The firm said Sentinel works by analysing over six billion chat ...