Lines of Thought / Topic
Children and teens: the line so far
10 developments and 20 rules, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Rule · In forceCNAlgorithm Recommendation Provisions
- Rule · In forceGBOSA intimate image (incl. deepfake) sharing offences
- Rule · Partly in forceEUEU AI Act
Also on Project Meridian and the race to govern military AI, Transparency, not licensing, Who decides if a medical AI is safe?
- Rule · In forceUS-UTUtah mental-health chatbot law
- Rule · In forceUSTAKE IT DOWN Act
- Rule · In forceGBDeepfake intimate image creation offence
- Illinois bars AI from delivering therapy without a licensed professional
Mental-health chatbot makers now face a patchwork in which the same product is banned in some US states and merely labelled in others.
- Rule · In forceUS-ILIllinois AI therapy ban (WOPR Act)
- FTC orders seven firms to explain how AI companion chatbots protect children
It put the largest consumer chatbot providers on notice that companion features and teen use are a federal consumer-protection priority, ahead of state companion-chatbot laws taking effect.
- Rule · In forceITItalian AI Law
- Rule · Partly in forceSGOSRA Act / Online Safety Commission
- Rule · In forceUS-NYNY AI companion law
- Rule · In forceUSState AI law preemption EO
Also on Transparency, not licensing, Can an algorithm deny your care?
- Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides and self-harm
The first resolution of chatbot wrongful-death claims keeps product-liability theories against companion apps alive while similar suits against OpenAI continue.
- Ofcom opens Online Safety Act probe into X over Grok sexualised deepfakes
It is the clearest case yet of an AI feature inside a social platform triggering platform-safety law in several jurisdictions at once.
- White House sends Congress AI framework calling for preemption of state laws
It is the administration's template for any federal preemption bill and signals which state rules, chiefly model-development laws, are most exposed.
- Rule · ProposedUSWhite House AI legislative framework
- China issues companion-AI rules banning virtual partners for minors
It is the most prescriptive national regime for AI companions so far, directly constraining product design for character-chat apps in China.
- China's education ministry orders AI teaching across all school and university levels
It sets the largest school system in the world on a compulsory AI-education path, creating a huge domestic market for Chinese education AI tools.
- Rule · In forceCNAnthropomorphic (companion) AI Measures
- Rule · Partly in forceGBCrime and Policing Act 2026 (nudification tools, AI CSAM generators)
- FTC begins enforcing TAKE IT DOWN Act's 48-hour removal duty for intimate deepfakes
Any US service hosting user images or video, including AI image generators, now needs a working notice-and-removal channel or faces FTC civil penalties.
- Rule · ProposedCABill C-36 (privacy reform)
- Rule · In forceCAProtecting Victims Act (sexual deepfakes)
- Rule · In forceEUDigital Omnibus on AI
- EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters force, delaying high-risk AI Act duties to 2027-28
Providers and public bodies deploying high-risk AI in the EU gain 16-24 months, while the new prohibitions and watermarking deadline arrive in December 2026.
- California enacts SB 1119 requiring child-safety risk assessments for companion chatbots
Chatbot makers serving Californian minors move from disclosure duties to pre-release risk assessment and audit obligations backed by private lawsuits.
- Rule · Enacted, not yet in forceUS-CASB 1119 / Adam's Law