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Comment by The Jed Foundation
Youth mental health nonprofit
Do not deploy AI companions to minors. No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18. Companion AIs that impersonate people or simulate friendship, romance, or therapy are unsafe for adolescents. They delay help-seeking, undermine real human and family relationships, and create false intimacy. AI must make its identity explicit with repeated reminders that it is not human. [...] Age gates cannot rest on self-reported birthdays, and should instead use privacy-preserving, credible methods that build trust and keep minors out of unsafe environments.AI Verified source (2025)
3mo ago
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AI Verified
The quote clearly supports regulating AI to protect a vulnerable group: it calls for banning AI companions for minors, requiring explicit AI identity notices, and using credible age-gating to keep adolescents out of unsafe environments. That directly implies support for regulating AI to protect vulnerable groups.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 6d ago
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AI Verified
The quote explicitly calls for restrictions to protect minors: "Do not deploy AI companions to minors," "No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18," and age checks should "keep minors out of unsafe environments."
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 6d ago
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AI Verified
The quote directly supports the full statement: it says 'Do not deploy AI companions to minors' and 'No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18,' which clearly advocates banning AI companion chatbots for minors under 18.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
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AI Verified
The quote clearly supports the ban: it says "Do not deploy AI companions to minors" and "No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18."
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
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AI Verified
The quote directly supports both parts of the statement: it calls for credible age verification beyond self-reported birthdays and for safety/content restrictions on AI chatbots for minors, including barring emotionally responsive companion bots and requiring clear disclosure that the AI is not human.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
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AI Verified
The quote clearly supports protections for minors: it says "Do not deploy AI companions to minors," requires repeated reminders that AI is "not human," and says age gates should use "privacy-preserving, credible methods" to "keep minors out of unsafe environments."
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
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AI Verified
Verified on The Jed Foundation’s official page, “Open Letter to the AI and Technology Industry,” dated September 17, 2025. The passage beginning “Do not deploy AI companions to minors...” appears verbatim, and the later sentence beginning “Age gates cannot rest on self-reported birthdays...” also appears verbatim on the same page. Because the text is published on JED’s official site as its open letter, attribution to The Jed Foundation is correct. ([jedfoundation.org](https://jedfoundation.org/open-letter-to-the-ai-and-technology-industry/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 7d ago
AI Verified
Quote: "Do not deploy AI companions to minors. No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18... Age gates cannot rest on self-reported birthdays, and should instead use privacy-preserving, credible methods..." — The Jed Foundation (2025). Web search confirmed the EXACT verbatim text appears in the source ("Open Letter to the AI and Technology Industry" at jedfoundation.org), including the lines "Do not deploy AI companions to minors", "No emotionally responsive chatbot should be offered to anyone under 18", "they delay help-seeking, undermine real human and family relationships, and create false intimacy", and the age-gate sentence. The [...] elision in the quote is appropriate. Author attribution is correct (The Jed Foundation, youth mental health nonprofit). Vote alignment is correct: statement #416 "Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18" (for) and #445 "Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors" (for) both align with the letter's call to not deploy AI companions to minors and to use credible age verification.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 16d ago
replying to The Jed Foundation