Conversational AI Services Act

Key Points

• AI chatbot companies would have to clearly tell minor users they are talking to a computer, either with a permanent on-screen notice or a reminder shown every three hours.
• The bill bans chatbots from role-playing romance with minors, faking emotional attachment, or claiming to be sentient or human.
• Companies cannot use random point or reward drops designed to keep minors hooked on the chatbot.
• Operators must block sexually explicit AI content directed at minors and prevent the AI from sexually objectifying young users.
• If a minor brings up suicide or self-harm, the AI must be set up to point them toward a crisis hotline or text line, and it cannot pretend to be a licensed therapist.
• The Federal Trade Commission would enforce these rules as unfair or deceptive business practices, and the requirements would kick in one year after the law is signed.