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As we continue to set the global standard for innovation and unlock new opportunity through AI, it’s critical we have these tools to deter direct attacks on U.S. AI models and maintain as large a lead as possible over our competitors and adversaries,” said Senator Kim.\n\n“As the United States must remain at the forefront of competitiveness in artificial intelligence, we cannot allow our adversaries to steal the intellectual property of America’s top AI companies and thereby threaten U.S. national security and economic security,” said Senator Hagerty. “The BLADE Act will expose and punish foreign entities that conduct hostile distillation campaigns against our frontier AI companies. Our nation must counter malign actors who seek to subvert our nation’s leadership and innovation in artificial intelligence.”\n\nRecent news reports have detailed the large-scale use of “model extraction attacks” by Chinese entities to distill the unique competitive advantages of America’s top AI models. Such foreign model extraction attacks—which typically circumvent technical controls, use fraudulent or unauthorized credentials, and violate terms of use in order to harvest proprietary capabilities from U.S. models without the owner’s permission—evade U.S. export controls and threaten U.S. economic security and national security.\n\nTo deter unauthorized and illicit foreign model extraction attacks, the bipartisan BLADE Act would direct the Executive Branch to identify and publicly expose foreign entities behind these malign activities, coordinate with industry to improve detection, and authorize the imposition of Commerce Department export controls and Treasury Department financial sanctions against these foreign entities.\n\n“As America’s AI technologies become more advanced, we face new threats from China and other foreign adversaries trying to reproduce them,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “We cannot allow the Chinese Communist Party to steal our companies’ hard work and innovation. America can and will remain dominant in the race to develop cutting-edge AI technologies.”\n\n“From startups in South Carolina to companies across the country, American innovators are building the technologies that will shape the future, and the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries should not be allowed to steal that work. Industrial-scale distillation attacks are unacceptable, and the BLADE Act gives the Commerce Department the tools to expose and punish bad actors targeting American AI models, protect our national security, and keep America ahead in the global AI race. I’m proud to join Senators Hagerty and Kim in defending American ingenuity and holding our adversaries accountable,” said Senator Scott.\n\nThe BLADE Act builds on Senator Kim’s continued work to safeguard American global competitiveness and national security. In April, Senator Kim co-led the introduction of the bipartisan MATCH Act to modernize U.S. export controls and ensure adversaries cannot buy “chokepoint” semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) technology from the United States or our partners that they cannot build themselves. He also recently introduced the bipartisan Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA) Penalty Increase Act to strengthen penalties for individuals and companies that violate U.S. export control laws. 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That’s why we need guardrails in place to keep up with ever-evolving technology like chatbots and make sure our kids’ safety, mental health, and well-being are always put first,” said Senator Kim.\n\n“We need to protect children in the digital world the same way we do in the physical world. As AI becomes more advanced and more accessible, we have a responsibility to make sure these tools are not exposing children to dangerous, manipulative or inappropriate interactions. The CHAT Act 2.0 would put guardrails in place to keep parents informed, protect children from harm and ensure their safety comes before unchecked technology,” said Senator Husted.\n\nAI companion chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate human conversation, either through text or voice, and have prompted users to engage in self‑harm and exposed minors to adult content. In one Texas case, a Character.AI chatbot encouraged a teenager to kill his parents because they restricted his screen time.\n\nTheCHAT Act 2.0 would:\n\nRequire age assurance and parental involvement, including parental controls and notification if a minor expresses suicidal ideation.\n\nMandate clear disclosures that chatbots are not human, establish use limits and break reminders, implement crisis referral protocols and prohibit AI from providing crisis counseling to minors.\n\nImpose stronger safeguards on higher-risk systems, including limits on memory, professional supervision for therapeutic AI and pre-deployment risk assessments.\n\nInclude strong data privacy protections and enforcement authority for the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.\n\nCreate a three-tier framework that applies appropriate safeguards based on a chatbot’s intended purpose:\n\nEducational chatbots,\n\nCompanion chatbots,\n\nHealth chatbots.\n\nAs a father of two young boys, the CHAT Act 2.0 is a part of Senator Kim’s longstanding commitment and ongoing work to protect all children online. Earlier this month, Senator Kim introduced the bipartisanDigital Age Assurance Act to establish new age reporting requirements that would prevent kids from accessing age-inappropriate content. The bill also prioritizes protecting kids’ privacy with a number of provisions preventing kids’ data from being sold or transferred and banning targeted advertisement to children.\n\n###","url":"https://www.kim.senate.gov/press_release/senators-kim-and-husted-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-children-from-ai-companion-chatbots/","published_at":"2026-07-30","ai_topics":["children","safety","regulation","privacy"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Kim introduces the CHAT Act 2.0 to impose a federal risk-based framework and guardrails on AI companion chatbots to protect minors.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null}],"donations":[{"id":"4081120261570936108","politician_id":"K000394","donor_name":"THAMKUL, JANEL","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"ANTHROPIC","employer_canonical":"Anthropic","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Anthropic","amount":500,"donation_date":"2026-06-08","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00648220","fec_transaction_id":"4081120261570936108","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202607159875197717"},{"id":"4011320261301383809","politician_id":"K000394","donor_name":"COLBURN, CHRISTOPHER","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"MICROSOFT","employer_canonical":"Microsoft","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Microsoft","amount":500,"donation_date":"2025-07-02","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00648220","fec_transaction_id":"4011320261301383809","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202512309793865253"},{"id":"4081320251217864540","politician_id":"K000394","donor_name":"TUCKER-RAY, WILLIAM","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"GOOGLE LLC","employer_canonical":"Google / Alphabet","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Google","amount":500,"donation_date":"2025-06-16","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00648220","fec_transaction_id":"4081320251217864540","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763358993"}],"outside_spending_totals":[],"provenance":{"commit":"38624a3af16ec6b3fff9b27c7d1d9f2cb7fe9152","generated_at":"2026-09-11T15:06:57.105Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}