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Comment by Office of U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego

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The GUARD Act would: * Ban AI companies from providing AI companions to minors. AI Verified source (2025)
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors

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AI Verified Checked year (2025, acceptable), author attribution, vote alignment, source, and quote quality. The source_url (Gallego's official Senate press release) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed Sen. Ruben Gallego backs the GUARD Act and that the Act would ban AI companions for minors, matching the quote "Ban AI companies from providing AI companions to minors." Author ("Office of U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego", a Senate press office) is correctly attributed. I corrected the source_url to the canonical path (added the missing /news/ segment) and removed a stray scraped link artifact ("Read the full bill HERE.") from the quote content. Both votes are "for": statement 416 (ban AI companion chatbots for minors) is directly on point, and statement 445 (age verification/content safeguards) aligns since the GUARD Act mandates age verification and safeguards. Quote is accurate and relevant. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3d ago
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