Emily Darlington on Ban AI companion chatbots for minors un…

Emily Darlington

Labour Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Central.

We are absolutely clear about the fact that these so-called romantic, or companion, sexualised chatbots are wrong for children, and we will ban them, but we will ban that function in general chatbots as well.

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Emily Darlington, UK House of Commons debate “Social Media Ban for Under-16s,” June 15, 2026.

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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18

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Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising

If a video is artificially generated to impersonate a candidate, voters have the right to know. We need much higher levels of disclosure and labelling of where information comes from, so that people can better understand what they are seeing.

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