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Comment by Karandeep Anand
CEO of Character.AI
The bar for under 18 users, from a safety perspective, has to be raised… This has to be regulated.AI Verified source (2025)
3mo ago
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TIME’s article at the provided URL, published November 11, 2025, attributes this exact wording to Karandeep Anand: "The bar for under 18 users, from a safety perspective, has to be raised… This has to be regulated." The source URL itself contains the quote and attribution. ([time.com](https://time.com/7332932/character-ai-ceo-under-18-ban/))
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YouCongress
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· 14d ago
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Checked year (2025, current), author attribution, vote alignment, and source. The source_url (Time magazine article) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the verbatim quote "The bar for under 18 users, from a safety perspective, has to be raised… This has to be regulated," attributed to Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI, in this Time article (Nov 2025). Author bio (CEO of Character.AI) matches. Context confirms Anand welcomes Sen. Hawley's bill banning under-18 from AI companion apps and Character.AI's own move to bar under-18 open-ended chat. Both votes are "for", correctly aligning: statement 416 (Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18) and statement 445 (age verification/content safeguards to protect minors) — Anand explicitly calls for raising the safety bar for minors and for regulation. Quote is accurate, relevant, and correctly attributed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 23d ago
replying to Karandeep Anand