AI Regulation
Twelve states regulate companion bots through differing disclosure, minor-safety, crisis-response, and other requirements. This analysis separates recurring governance patterns from state-specific rules in California, Colorado, and beyond.
AI Governance
Meta’s settlement, Colorado’s Chatbot Safety Act, and the FTC’s AI companion study show youth-safety governance moving toward product controls, testing, monitoring, and evidence of performance—without creating one national safety standard.
Chatbot safety
The KIDS Act contains 3 distinct compliance regimes with different obligations by title. Title I mandates technology verification. Title II excludes age-gating. Title IV triggers SAFEBOTs duties when chatbot providers know users are minors.
AI Governance
Two OpenAI wrongful-death complaints put chatbot safety controls, warnings, refusals, escalation, access restrictions, and model behavior into the pleadings.