Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed ROOST, a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. ROOST says AI has increased the need to improve online safety for children.

Discord, Facebook, Snapchat, and Roblox are the targets of a child safety lawsuit alleging they include addictive or harmful features that allowed an adult user to connect with and abuse a child.

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure ...