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U.S. Senator for Missouri
No AI chatbot companion should be targeted at children who are younger than 18 years of age.
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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AI Unverifiable The source URL does contain the exact sentence and attributes it to Hawley at the October 28, 2025 GUARD Act press conference, but I could not verify that wording in a primary or independent reliable record. Hawley’s own October 28, 2025 press release for the same event quotes him with different language, and contemporaneous reports quote other remarks from that press conference instead. So the policy position is corroborated, but this exact verbatim quote is not. ([calawyers.org](https://calawyers.org/privacy-law/regulatory-focus-on-ai-companion-character-chatbots/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI Verified Checked year (2025, current), author attribution, vote alignment, and source. The source_url (California Lawyers Association article) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the quote is attributed to Senator Josh Hawley: "No AI chatbot companion should be targeted at children who are younger than 18 years of age," stated during a press conference presenting the GUARD Act. Author bio (U.S. Senator for Missouri) matches; Hawley is the lead sponsor of the GUARD Act. Both votes are "for", correctly aligning: statement 416 (Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18) is the central thrust of Hawley's bill, and statement 445 (age verification/content safeguards to protect minors) is directly embodied in the GUARD Act's age-verification requirements. The source is a reputable secondary source that accurately reports the quote; no closer primary source with this exact verbatim wording was located (it was spoken at a press conference). Quote is accurate, relevant, and correctly attributed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3mo ago
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