‘This is their life’: Mom fights to protect students from predatory AI

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A roundtable focusing on keeping young people safe from the dangers of AI was hosted by Gov. Shapiro months after Radnor High School students were targeted by inappropriate video.

By Kelsey Kushner •
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro put artificial intelligence in the spotlight on Thursday as teachers, lawmakers and students came together for a powerful roundtable on AI safety. NBC10’s Kelsey Kushner reports.

The discussions around how to keep students safe are continuing as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro brought together parents, teachers, lawmakers and students for a round table on the dangers of AI.
This round table comes months after an inappropriate AI-generated video involving six students spread through Radnor High School.

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“At first your almost shocked and paralyzed. You don’t know what to do,” parent Audrey Greenberg said. “I hear my daughter screaming upstairs, ‘Mom mom.’ I run up the stairs. I say ‘What’s going on?’ She said ‘Somebody in school made naked videos of me.’ And my heart dropped. How is that possible?”
Greenberg told NBC10 that her family is still dealing with the trauma.
Greenberg explained that the school sent a letter notifying parents of the situation back in December of 2025.
In a statement to NBC10 last month, the district said in part that they have “communicated that taking, copying or creating images of students or staff without their consent, regardless of intent, is unacceptable.”
The district also said that they “plan on educating students about the dangers of AI.”
In January of 2026, the Radnor School District Superintendent wrote a letter to families after police finished their investigation into the AI-generated content that was obtained by NBC10 in March.
“No evidence shared with law enforcement depicted anything inappropriate or any other related crime. Individuals involved have cooperated with the investigation allowing searching of personal technology. After a thorough investigation, the alleged images were never discovered,” the superintendent wrote. “While this behavior is being addressed through appropriate measures, the spread of rumors and misinformation on social media is causing additional harm and stress to all involved.”
Meanwhile, Greenberg says it goes beyond student behind and believes that schools and police lack the proper tools and resources to investigate crimes like this as well as to protect victims.
“These kids spend 75% of their waking hours, including school and activities, at school. This is their life. The school has to govern this and they can say this hasn’t happened in our school but digital is everywhere all the time and this touches their lives,” Greenberg said.
Greenberg was among the people who spoke at a roundtable discussion with Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday, March 19 to push for stronger safeguards against AI abuse.
Since taking office, Gov. Shapiro has already made safety a priority by rolling out a new AI literacy toolkit, launching an enforcement task force and partnering with the Attorney General’s Office to address emerging chat bot threats.
“I just want us to get to the end game of having proper protocols, guardrails, procedures so that victims can feel heard, they can feel that people understand and believe them and they feel that law enforcement and educators are supporting them,” Greenberg explained.

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