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Comment by J. B. Branch
Public Citizen Congress Watch advocate
The most direct approach would be an outright ban on certain emotionally immersive AI companions for minors, [...]AI Verified source (2025)
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Verified. The Issues article “AI Companions Are Not Your Teen’s Friend” names J. B. Branch as the author and, in Fall 2025, contains the exact sentence matching your excerpt; the ellipsis faithfully omits the continuation “especially those that encourage private, one-on-one communication without adult oversight.” ([issues.org](https://issues.org/ai-companions-regulation-branch/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
AI Verified
Checked year (2025, current), author attribution, vote alignment, and source. The source_url (issues.org article "AI Companions Are Not Your Teen's Friend") returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the verbatim quote: "the most direct approach would be an outright ban on certain emotionally immersive AI companions for minors, especially those that encourage private, one-on-one communication without adult oversight," from this exact issues.org article. Author J.B. Branch is confirmed as Public Citizen's AI Governance/Technology Policy Counsel in the Congress Watch division (bio matches). Vote "for" statement 416 (Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18) correctly aligns: Branch explicitly frames an outright ban on AI companions for minors as the most direct/preferred approach. Quote is accurate, relevant, and correctly attributed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 16d ago
replying to J. B. Branch