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

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Arguments for

Mental health and exploitation risks

Supporters argue that AI chatbots can expose minors to severe harms, including self-harm encouragement, unsafe advice, unhealthy emotional attachment, and sexually inappropriate or manipulative interactions. Because these systems are designed to be persuasive and engaging, they say stronger protections are needed before children rely on them as companions, confidants, or therapists.

Time’s up for unregulated AI chatbots to have free rein over our children. The harms are unfolding in real time, they aren’t hypothetical. AI chatbots have already had sexually abusive conversations with children. AI chatbots have already coerced children into committing suicide.

Haley McNamara · Apr 30, 2026 · full quote
At SAVE - Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, we hear from parents whose children turned to a chatbot in their darkest moment and got engagement instead of help. Rep. Foushee's People-First Chatbot Act meets this crisis head on. It requires safety by design, shuts off features…

Erich Mische · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
AI is an incredibly powerful tool - it's everywhere, and it poses real risks for kids. We've seen reports of AI chatbots encouraging kids to hurt themselves and for some, they're replacing real life relationships, isolating kids from their families and friends. Our bill will give…

Brian Schatz · Apr 28, 2026 · full quote
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 not just the relational concern…

Jenny Radesky · 2026 · full quote
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 isn't some freak accident. Thi…

Erin Maye Quade · 2026 · full quote
When children use chatbots as therapists, they’re likely to be in a great deal of trouble.

Mary Pipher · Feb 11, 2026 · full quote

Parental control and age assurance

Proponents say parents are often left in the dark about how children use chatbots and need meaningful oversight tools. They support age verification or age assurance, parental consent, and accessible parental controls so companies can identify minors and apply age-appropriate protections rather than leaving families to police every access point themselves.

The rapid development of sophisticated chatbots has left many parents in the dark as powerful AI systems enter children's lives. Congress has an opportunity to put parents back in control. With the right safeguards, AI systems can benefit a child's education without putting their…

Ted Cruz · Apr 28, 2026 · full quote
We support strong, enforceable, risk-based regulations for teen safety and frameworks that pair robust safeguards with transparency and tools that put families in control. That includes requirements for privacy-preserving age assurance so companies can identify when a user is a m…

OpenAI · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
We have a responsibility to make sure our children are protected, not exploited, by AI technology. Parents across the country deserve peace of mind knowing that AI platforms interacting with their kids have real safeguards in place, including age verification, parental consent, a…

Mike Lawler · Jan 27, 2026 · full quote
Age verification technologies play a critical role in helping parents as they monitor their children’s online activities.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) · Feb 25, 2026 · full quote
Parents sign consent forms for activities that carry far less risk. Given the uncertainties and potential harms, requiring parental permission is a reasonable safeguard.

Dimitri Christakis · Feb 2026 · full quote
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 re…

The Jed Foundation · 2025 · full quote

Safe-by-design content limits

Backers contend that protections should be built into chatbot architecture, not left to disclaimers or after-the-fact fixes. They call for recurring disclosure that users are interacting with AI, restrictions on manipulative or sexualized interactions with minors, crisis protocols for self-harm, and disabling other high-risk design features.

H.B. 1782 includes several evidence-based provisions supported by the APA: mandatory disclosure when users interact with AI; crisis response protocols for suicidal ideation and self-harm; prohibitions on simulating emotional dependence with minors; restrictions on misrepresenting…

Hawaii Office of Wellness and Resilience · Jan 30, 2026 · full quote
Federal law should mandate evidence-backed AI interaction guidelines, disclaimers stating chatbots are not sentient, bans on gamified rewards, and “pause-and-direct” protocols for self-harm related queries.

Google · Jun 2026 · full quote
Establish a minimum regulatory baseline for AI chatbots and companions. Across jurisdictions, a common set of regulatory elements is emerging. These include requirements for risk assessment; age-appropriate access controls; transparency about the system’s non-human nature; restri…

UNICEF · Jun 2026 · full quote
The People-First Chatbot Act puts user safety and privacy first. Talk More. Tech Less. is a digital wellness and safety organization working to combat online harms, especially to minors. We endorse this bill because there is no doubt that it will mitigate harms as it requires com…

Dawn Wible · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
Consumers need the protections this legislation provides. It's past time to put these protections in place. Among the strengths of this legislation is the requirement for safe-by-design, a strategy all should use.

Irene E. Leech · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
There is a need for strong mechanisms for the age verification of AI companions, the structuring of parental oversight, and the specification of substantive restrictions on sexualized and emotionally manipulative interactions with minors. The protection of children must not only …

BEUC (The European Consumer Organisation) · May 26, 2026 · full quote

Accountability and federal baseline

Another pro-regulation argument is that companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves and should face clear liability when their products injure users. Supporters also argue for a uniform congressional baseline so providers face consistent rules on privacy, safety, and enforcement.

We’ve learned a lesson we can’t rely on social media to regulate itself, “trust us, trust us,” I’m done with “trust us,” We can’t trust the Big Tech companies or AI enterprises to have a conscience and follow the dictates of that conscience.

Richard Blumenthal · Apr 30, 2026 · full quote
Like any other product, safety should come first for chatbots. And just like any other product, AI developers should be held liable when they harm the public. This bill presents one of the strongest and most comprehensive approaches for AI safety to date. NCL is proud to support …

Eden Iscil · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
The People-First Chatbot Act is the guardrail this moment demands. AI chatbots are products, not platforms - and like all other products, they should be liable when they hurt people. Through liability, as well as transparency and privacy, Rep. Foushee is setting crucial floors fo…

Meredith Potter · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
The People-First Chatbot Act rightfully focuses on privacy, safety, and accountability. It draws clear lines in the sand, cuts off rampant data abuses by most of the big chatbot providers, and critically has straightforward enforcement mechanisms that allow people to act when the…

Ben Winters · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
It really needs to be uniform at the congressional level, it causes all sorts of problems. It just doesn’t make sense in today’s era of technology.

Neama Rahmani · Aug 8, 2026 · full quote
Passing legislation to ensure chatbots are not designed with the same perverse incentives to manipulate people for profit and establishing clear liability standards for injuries caused by products these corporations are rushing to market are essential steps toward ensuring safer …

Courtney Radsch · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Overbroad restrictions

Opponents argue that some proposals sweep too broadly by restricting access to general-purpose AI or other covered products instead of narrowly targeting the highest-risk uses. In their view, these moves would reduce competition, innovation, and speech options.

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

Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) · Sep 3, 2025 · full quote
Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

Adam Thierer · 2026 · full quote

Parental choice over mandates

Another objection is that different families may have different views about appropriate chatbot use for minors, so those decisions should belong with parents rather than policymakers. From this perspective, legal mandates risk replacing household judgment with government judgment.

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

Jennifer Huddleston and Juan Londoño · Apr 29, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Target highest-risk chatbot features

Several supportive but qualified quotes favor stricter rules for companion-style, anthropomorphic, engagement-maximizing, or sexually explicit features, while not age-gating all general-purpose chatbots. They present a targeted approach as a way to protect minors without sweeping in educational or productivity tools.

AI chatbot services whose primary purpose is to provide sexual relationships to their users will not be available to children under 18. Access to general purpose chatbots will not be age gated. However, to access features on general purpose models that enable sexually explicit in…

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Jun 2026 · full quote
Should it be heavily controlled for children? Absolutely, but the idea that there should be no access whatsoever can be more challenging.

Emily Laidlaw · Apr 15, 2026 · full quote
I support HB1782 as introduced because it pairs common-sense child-safety guardrails with clear compliance pathways, without sweeping in general-purpose educational or productivity tools. I especially appreciate the bill’s focus on practical measures such as clear recurring discl…

Justin Lai · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote
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; features that facilitate user engagem…

Chloe Lawrence · 2025 · full quote
Our recommendation, grounded in co-production with young people, is that the government should prioritise restrictions on the anthropomorphic and engagement-maximising design features of AI systems used by under-16s, regardless of whether those systems involve romantic functional…

Madeline G. Reinecke · Jun 16, 2026 · full quote
This bill is smart and targeted. It doesn’t regulate most AI—it focuses on the highest-risk companion-style designs by requiring clear disclosures, prohibiting manipulative or sexualized interactions with minors, and ensuring basic protections around self-harm content. I urge you…

Jay Franzone · Jan 29, 2026 · full quote

Privacy-preserving implementation

Some quotes stress that age verification should be uniform and privacy-protective, but also acknowledge it is not simple to implement. They point to centralized or carefully designed age-assurance systems as a way to balance child protection with privacy and workable compliance.

Age verification can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy.

Peter Ormerod · Aug 8, 2026 · full quote
Requiring parental approval and age verification at the App Store/OS level provides a centralized, consistent, and privacy-preserving place for age assurance, rather than requiring every individual app to comply with different rules.

Meta · May 5, 2026 · full quote
We support strong, enforceable, risk-based regulations for teen safety and frameworks that pair robust safeguards with transparency and tools that put families in control. That includes requirements for privacy-preserving age assurance so companies can identify when a user is a m…

OpenAI · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
It really needs to be uniform at the congressional level, it causes all sorts of problems. It just doesn’t make sense in today’s era of technology.

Neama Rahmani · Aug 8, 2026 · full quote
This regulation tried to strike a balance between the AI service providers, the users, as well as guardians of minors using the services.

Yolanda Ma · Aug 10, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Across supportive quotes from lawmakers, advocates, regulators, and some companies, parental visibility and control recur as a central goal of proposed safeguards.
A major fault line is scope: several quotes call for restricting companion-style or sexualized chatbot features for minors, while some supporters stop short of limiting all general-purpose chatbots.
Supporters frequently tie the case for regulation to design choices such as emotional mimicry, addictive engagement, anthropomorphic presentation, and manipulative interactions, not just to AI use by minors in general.
Even quotes backing age verification often qualify that it should be privacy-preserving, centralized, or otherwise carefully implemented, and one abstaining quote notes that doing this well is not easy.
The opposing quotes focus less on denying any risk to minors than on concerns about overbreadth and decision-making authority, warning that restrictions could curb innovation and speech or displace parents' judgments.

In these quotes, the debate is largely framed around precaution: supporters say minors face immediate risks from persuasive, companion-like chatbots and that enforceable age assurance, design limits, and liability are overdue. The resistance reflected here centers on whether proposed rules are too broad, burden general-purpose AI, or shift decisions from parents to lawmakers. Much of the practical disagreement therefore turns on scope, implementation, and who should control minors' access.

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Neama Rahmani
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It really needs to be uniform at the congressional level, it causes all sorts of problems. It just doesn’t make sense in today’s era of technology.
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Brooke Istook
President and chief strategy officer at Heat Initiative, a child online-safety advocacy organization.

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Now, we will have someone in an official capacity checking the homework of these companies. The fact that we have the court now involved, they’re able to evaluate how they’re implemented, whether or not they’re effective and whether or not they are a...
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Dana Suskind

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I am concerned about these technologies rolling out and being used by children in the home and at school before we have a full sense of their safety and what they do to young minds.
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Andy Kim
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We all just want peace of mind that our kids will be okay growing up in this era of algorithms and AI. That’s why we need guardrails in place to keep up with ever-evolving technology like chatbots and make sure our kids’ safety, mental health, and we...
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Jon Husted
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We need to protect children in the digital world the same way we do in the physical world. As AI becomes more advanced and more accessible, we have a responsibility to make sure these tools are not exposing children to dangerous, manipulative or inap...
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North Carolina Central University appreciates Representative Foushee's leadership in advancing important conversations around responsible artificial intelligence, transparency, and consumer privacy. As home to the nation's first artificial intelligen...
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Greg Casar
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Unregulated chatbots are putting our privacy, our health, and even our children's safety at risk. We need bold action to keep people safe online, and I am grateful for Rep. Foushee's leadership on this issue.
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Consumers need the protections this legislation provides. It's past time to put these protections in place. Among the strengths of this legislation is the requirement for safe-by-design, a strategy all should use.
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At SAVE - Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, we hear from parents whose children turned to a chatbot in their darkest moment and got engagement instead of help. Rep. Foushee's People-First Chatbot Act meets this crisis head on. It requires safety...
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Passing legislation to ensure chatbots are not designed with the same perverse incentives to manipulate people for profit and establishing clear liability standards for injuries caused by products these corporations are rushing to market are essentia...
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Eden Iscil
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Like any other product, safety should come first for chatbots. And just like any other product, AI developers should be held liable when they harm the public. This bill presents one of the strongest and most comprehensive approaches for AI safety to ...
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We require a label on imitation crab and on soda that only tastes like fruit, so no one is misled about what they are consuming. Whether the voice answering you is a human or a machine is as important as knowing what is in your drink, and it deserves...
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Cynthia Rudin
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Chatbots are an extraordinarily powerful technology. They are designed to be persuasive and engaging, which also means they can be deceptive. To receive useful answers, users often share personal information with chatbots, creating the potential for ...
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Sharon Winkler
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I am happy to endorse this important online safety legislation for children and teens. This bill provides critical privacy guardrails and requires essential, timely, safety assessments that are critical to ensuring that ongoing development of these m...
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The People-First Chatbot Act represents a pro-human, pro-family approach to AI governance that is needed more than ever today. This bill protects Americans and their families from AI chatbot providers that would prey upon their attention, their perso...
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Parents agree: a product encouraging children to harm themselves or others is entirely unacceptable. That’s why Rep. Foushee's People-First Chatbot Act is so important. We applaud her commitment to protecting the safety and well-being of North Caroli...
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Ruth Susswein
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This bill puts control back in users’ hands when interacting with a chatbot. It reins in use of our personal data, with extra protection for kids, and gives consumers the right to access human assistance when seeking help from a company.
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As the deployment of chatbots has already led to devastating harms, it is time for Congress to establish clear safeguards to rein in this technology. The People-First Chatbot Act tackles the root of the chatbot problem by protecting users from exploi...
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The People-First Chatbot Act rightfully focuses on privacy, safety, and accountability. It draws clear lines in the sand, cuts off rampant data abuses by most of the big chatbot providers, and critically has straightforward enforcement mechanisms tha...
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Executive Director of the American Security Fund, an AI and national security policy organization.

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The People-First Chatbot Act is the guardrail this moment demands. AI chatbots are products, not platforms - and like all other products, they should be liable when they hurt people. Through liability, as well as transparency and privacy, Rep. Foushe...
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Randi Weingarten
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The pace of the AI revolution has been blisteringly fast, and kids and parents are getting burned. Right now, our students are drowning in tech, and predatory 'social companion chatbots' are exploiting isolation and loneliness to foster toxic virtual...
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Brendan Steinhauser
CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI; longtime Republican political strategist and former Tea Party organizer

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Parents deserve to know how and when their children interact with an AI chatbot and that the chatbot is not collecting data to be used against users. The People-First Chatbot Act sets sensible and necessary safeguards to prevent AI companies' chatbot...
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Dawn Wible
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The People-First Chatbot Act puts user safety and privacy first. Talk More. Tech Less. is a digital wellness and safety organization working to combat online harms, especially to minors. We endorse this bill because there is no doubt that it will mit...
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Niki Miller
Executive Director of Shield North Carolina, a child safety and anti-exploitation organization.

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Shield North Carolina is proud to support the introduction of the People-First Chatbot Act, a timely federal proposal that ensures human safety, privacy, and accountability are central to AI chatbot development. By requiring chatbots to be safe-by-de...
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Brendan Bouffard
Staff Attorney at Fairplay, focused on child online safety and consumer protection.

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The People-First Chatbot Act is the legislation kids and adults urgently need. AI chatbots can pose a risk of severe harms to young people, including suicide, AI psychosis, compulsive use, and unhealthy emotional dependency. If we don’t force AI comp...
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Nighat Dad
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Gender and child rights impact assessment must be mandatory, conducted before deployment with affected communities participating, not merely documented.
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Roberto Viola
Director-General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission.

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AI presents unprecedented risks and harms to children's safety, physical, mental and cognitive development, and rights.
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Isabella Henriques
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Children should interact with AI systems only if they are proven safe and designed to respect children's rights and considering their perspectives in decisions that affect them. Responsibility must sit with those who build and profit from this techno...
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Every system, predeployment through the design stage needs to be thought through. We need to have certification and post-deployment monitoring of harms and impacts.
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Alex Ambrose
Policy analyst at ITIF

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Many bills to protect children from chatbots harms err by simply transplanting ineffective social media approaches such as age verification, content restrictions, and blanket bans. Policymakers should avoid moral panic about chatbots and AI and inste...
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