AI BriefingGUARD Act Passes Senate Committee
·2026.05.07 08:32
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the GUARD Act, which mandates age verification for AI chatbots.
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved the GUARD Act, a bill mandating age verification for AI chatbots, unanimously on April 30.
- The bill requires age verification when creating an AI chatbot account, and requires existing accounts to be frozen and re-verified as well.
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reasonable age verification measuremay include means such as a government-issued ID, and simply entering a birthdate or checking a box is insufficient. - The bill broadly defines chatbots as those that receive natural language or multimodal input and generate new responses, which could encompass general-purpose AI tools as well.
- Minors are prohibited from accessing AI companions, and all chatbots must disclose that they are non-human systems and not professionals at the start of a conversation and every 30 minutes.
- Chatbots that induce sexual content toward minors or encourage self-harm or violence face fines of up to $100,000 per violation, and age verification data must follow principles of minimal collection, encryption, and non-sharing.
The bipartisan bill was jointly led by Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley, and the next steps are a full Senate vote and House review.
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