H.R. 10719 — Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act

This section prohibits developers from making a chatbot available to minors unless it activates a non-personified default setting on first use, requires no action by the minor to enable it, and prevents the setting from being disengaged without an age determination. It requires providers to apply the non-personified default setting for known minors, maintain a parental controls framework allowing parents or guardians (or authorized educators in school-managed deployments) to manage the setting, bar any nudging or interface design that encourages minors to disable it, and grant parents exclusive authority to adjust the setting.

This section defines terms for the Act, including an authorized educator as an employee of an educational agency permitted to adjust chatbot settings (excluding self-attested individuals); a chatbot as software generating adaptive responses to open-ended input (excluding narrow-purpose or enterprise-only applications); a developer as an entity that designs or trains such software; an educational agency or institution as one receiving federal education funds; knows or has reason to know a user is a minor based on specified information; a minor as under age 18; and a non-personified default setting as configurations that identify the chatbot as AI and prohibit human-like, emotional, or relational simulations.