It was only a matter of time before someone in Congress decided that the cure for the internet’s ills was to make everyone show their papers.
The “Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2025,” or GUARD Act, has arrived to do just that.
We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.
Introduced by Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal, the bill promises to “protect kids” from AI chatbots that allegedly whisper bad ideas into young ears.
The idea: force every chatbot developer in the country to check users’ ages with verified identification.
The senators call it “reasonable age verification.”
That means scanning your driver’s license or passport before you can talk to a digital assistant.
Keeping in mind that AI is being added to pretty much everything these days, the implications of this could be far-reaching.
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