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Ben Winters

Consumer Federation of America director

The People-First Chatbot Act rightfully focuses on privacy, safety, and accountability. It draws clear lines in the sand, cuts off rampant data abuses by most of the big chatbot providers, and critically has straightforward enforcement mechanisms that allow people to act when they are harmed by careless AI companies putting profit over people.

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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 directly endorses the People-First Chatbot Act and its privacy/safety enforcement provisions, so it is clearly relevant to the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote is a direct endorsement of the People-First Chatbot Act and its privacy/safety enforcement, so the recorded answer 'for' matches the author's stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verbatim endorsement of the People-First Chatbot Act in the official Foushee/Casar press release; quote text and attribution to Ben Winters match the source page. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data

It is the perfect recipe for something that needs federal government intervention. That's what legislatures and governments are there for: to protect people where they are unable to protect themselves and constrain companies from doing things that ar...

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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models

The People-First Chatbot Act rightfully focuses on privacy, safety, and accountability. It draws clear lines in the sand, cuts off rampant data abuses by most of the big chatbot providers, and critically has straightforward enforcement mechanisms tha...

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