WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) to protect children from AI chatbots. This legislation would ban AI companions for minors, mandate AI chatbots disclose their non-human status, and create new crimes for companies who make sexually explicit AI chatbots, or AI chatbots that coerce young people to take their own lives or commit other kinds of violence.
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