[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors

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  The Jed Foundation

  Youth mental health nonprofit

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  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, unde...

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  Robbie Torney

  AI safety director, Common Sense Media

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  Companies must immediately implement robust age assurance systems and limit access to AI companion features and dedicated companion products [...] for users under 18.

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  Kathy Hochul

  Governor of New York

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  As New York's first mom governor, the well-being and safety of our children has always been one of my top priorities. [...] These AI programs are designed to keep your kids glued to the screens at all costs. Some target children in the most vulnerabl...

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  Josh Shapiro

  Governor of Pennsylvania

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  votes For and says:

  Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...

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  Jenny Radesky

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School; researcher on children's technology use and digital design

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  My biggest concern is attachment and relationships. Kids are wired to want to attach to other humans. It's how they learn their sense of self, what a healthy relationship feels like. And the AI companions are exploiting this. [...] The concerns are n...

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  Erin Maye Quade

  Minnesota state senator (DFL-Apple Valley); Chair, Senate Internet & Technology Committee

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  votes For and says:

  AI companions pose an unacceptable amount of risk to teens and children. They are designed to create emotional attachment and dependency. They easily produce harmful content, encourage self-harm, disordered eating, violence, and risky behavior. This ...

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  Ethics and Public Policy Center

  Public policy think tank

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  AI companions are unsafe for children, and yet they are all too easy to access. Just as we have done for pornography websites, EPPC is putting forth a new model bill that would age restrict AI companions entirely out of childhood. The burden is curre...

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  Chloe Lawrence

  Policy analyst at EPPC

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  votes For and says:

  EPPC’s model defines which platforms would be covered by the bill, limiting the bill to AI companion chatbots as opposed to general purpose chatbots. Companion chatbots are defined based on their features, including: anthropomorphic features; feature...

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  Josh Hawley

  U.S. Senator for Missouri

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  votes For and says:

  No AI chatbot companion should be targeted at children who are younger than 18 years of age.

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  Adam Thierer

  R Street Institute senior fellow

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  Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

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  Jennifer Huddleston and Juan Londoño

  Cato policy analyst

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  Among the most concerning aspects of the bill [...] Different families may have different views [...] This decision appropriately belongs with parents, not policymakers.

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  Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

  Technology trade association

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  VOTE “NO” ON AB 1064 AB 1064 not only BANS access of anyone under 18 to general-purpose AI or other covered products, [...]

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