Melissa Schmidt

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Missouri State Representative; sponsor of the Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act

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[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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“It shall be unlawful to design, develop, or make available an artificial intelligence chatbot knowing or with reckless disregard for the fact that the artificial intelligence chatbot poses a risk of soliciting, encouraging, or inducing minors to: (a...
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
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“Minor”, any person seventeen years of age or under; [...] If the age verification process described in subdivision (2) of subsection 5 of this section determines that an individual is a minor, a covered entity shall prohibit the minor from accessing...
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