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Comment by Brendan Bouffard

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Staff Attorney at Fairplay, focused on child online safety and consumer protection.
The People-First Chatbot Act is the legislation kids and adults urgently need. AI chatbots can pose a risk of severe harms to young people, including suicide, AI psychosis, compulsive use, and unhealthy emotional dependency. If we don’t force AI companies to stop designing chatbots for addiction and unhealthy emotional attachment, we could see an unprecedented disaster for the health and well-being of young people in this country.
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Reps. Foushee, Casar Introduce Legislation to Protect Children and Americans’ Privacy from AI Chatbot Harms and Require Chatbot Safety Assessments
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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AI Verified The quote is directly about protecting children from AI chatbot harms and forcing safer design, so it is relevant to age verification and content safeguards. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Bouffard says the legislation is urgently needed to prevent chatbot harms to young people, which matches a 'for' answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Foushee press release (Jul 9, 2026) quotes Brendan Bouffard saying the Act is urgently needed because AI chatbots can cause severe harms to young people. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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