Comment by Melissa Schmidt

“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) Engage in, describe, or simulate sexually explicit conduct; or (b) Create or transmit any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct, including any visual depiction described in section 573.010.” “At the time an individual creates a new user account to use or interact with an artificial intelligence chatbot, a covered entity shall: (a) Request age data from the individual; (b) Verify the individual's age using a reasonable age verification process, subject to paragraph (d) of this subdivision; and (c) Using such age data, classify each user as a minor or an adult.”