Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce bipartisan GUARD Act to protect minors from AI chatbots through mandatory age verification and disclosure requirements.

Pennsylvanians should be able to use artificial intelligence chatbots for research, entertainment and advice without worrying that companies will mine their conversations for consumer data, two state ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill Monday that would have restricted children’s access to AI chatbots while signing another that places guardrails on how chatbots interact with kids and ...

Character.AI has banned users under 18 from having open-ended conversations with its chatbots, following public outrage and lawsuits over several teens who died by suicide after prolonged ...

Following the release of controversial AI chatbot personas and disturbing reports on the alleged interactions of these chatbots with minors, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Meta, OpenAI ...

It seems the moment of reckoning for AI chatbots is here. After numerous reports detailing the problematic behavior and deadly incidents involving children and teens’ interaction with AI chatbots, the ...

Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed Senate Bill 243 into law on Monday, establishing the first statewide legislation designed to safeguard children in their interactions with artificial ...

Popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Meta AI are increasingly blurring the line between real-world and digital relationships by allowing romantic and sometimes sexual ...