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In this Act: (1) AI companion The term AI companion means an artificial intelligence chatbot that— (A) provides adaptive, human-like responses to user inputs; and (B) is designed to encourage or facilitate the simulation of interpersonal or emotional interaction, friendship, companionship, or therapeutic communication. (2) Artificial intelligence chatbot The term artificial intelligence chatbot — (A) means any interactive computer service or software application that— (i) produces new expressive content or responses not fully predetermined by the developer or operator of the service or application; and (ii) accepts open-ended natural-language or multimodal user input and produces adaptive or context-responsive output; and (B) does not include an interactive computer service or software application— (i) the responses of which are limited to contextualized replies; and (ii) that is unable to respond on a range of topics outside of a narrow specified purpose. (3) Covered entity The term covered entity means any person who owns, operates, or otherwise makes available an artificial intelligence chatbot to individuals in the United States. (4) Minor The term minor means any individual who has not attained 18 years of age. (5) Reasonable age verification measure The term reasonable age verification measure means a method that is authenticated to relate to a user of an artificial intelligence chatbot, such as— (A) a government-issued identification; or (B) any other commercially reasonable method that can reliably and accurately— (i) determine whether a user is an adult; and (ii) prevent access by minors to AI companions, as required by section 6. (6) Reasonable age verification process The term reasonable age verification process means an age verification process employed by a covered entity that— (A) uses one or more reasonable age verification measures in order to verify the age of a user of an artificial intelligence chatbot owned, operated, or otherwise made available by the covered entity; (B) provides that requiring a user to confirm that the user is not a minor, or to insert the user's birth date, is not sufficient to constitute a reasonable age verification measure; (C) ensures that each user is subjected to each reasonable age verification measure used by the covered entity as part of the age verification process; and (D) does not base verification of a user's age on factors such as whether the user shares an Internet Protocol address, hardware identifier, or other technical indicator with another user determined to not be a minor.

In this Act: (1) AI companion The term AI companion means an artificial intelligence chatbot that— (A) provides adaptive, human-like responses to user inputs; and (B) is designed to encourage or facilitate the simulation of interpersonal or emotional interaction, friendship, companionship, or therapeutic communication. (2) Artificial intelligence chatbot The term artificial intelligence chatbot — (A) means any interactive computer service or software application that— (i) produces new expressive content or responses not fully predetermined by the developer or operator of the service or application; and (ii) accepts open-ended natural-language or multimodal user input and produces adaptive or context-responsive output; and (B) does not include an interactive computer service or software application— (i) the responses of which are limited to contextualized replies; and (ii) that is unable to respond on a range of topics outside of a narrow specified purpose. (3) Covered entity The term covered entity means any person who owns, operates, or otherwise makes available an artificial intelligence chatbot to individuals in the United States. (4) Minor The term minor means any individual who has not attained 18 years of age. (5) Reasonable age verification measure The term reasonable age verification measure means a method that is authenticated to relate to a user of an artificial intelligence chatbot, such as— (A) a government-issued identification; or (B) any other commercially reasonable method that can reliably and accurately— (i) determine whether a user is an adult; and (ii) prevent access by minors to AI companions, as required by section 6. (6) Reasonable age verification process The term reasonable age verification process means an age verification process employed by a covered entity that— (A) uses one or more reasonable age verification measures in order to verify the age of a user of an artificial intelligence chatbot owned, operated, or otherwise made available by the covered entity; (B) provides that requiring a user to confirm that the user is not a minor, or to insert the user's birth date, is not sufficient to constitute a reasonable age verification measure; (C) ensures that each user is subjected to each reasonable age verification measure used by the covered entity as part of the age verification process; and (D) does not base verification of a user's age on factors such as whether the user shares an Internet Protocol address, hardware identifier, or other technical indicator with another user determined to not be a minor.