S3062 Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2025

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2025-10-28

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Exposure to toxic content
• Compromise of privacy
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Overreliance and unsafe use

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• False or misleading information
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 6-8 subdomains, with strong focus on toxic content exposure (1.2), privacy compromise (2.1), security vulnerabilities (2.2), fraud and manipulation (4.3), overreliance and unsafe use (5.1), and loss of agency (5.2). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination & toxicity, privacy & security, malicious actors, and human-computer interaction domains.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Finance & Insurance
• Professional & Technical Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically companies that develop, operate, or make available AI chatbots and conversational AI systems to users in the United States. This includes social media platforms, consumer application providers, and AI companion services. The regulation applies broadly to any entity providing interactive AI chatbot services regardless of their primary industry sector.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute with mandatory obligations, criminal penalties, civil enforcement mechanisms, and designated enforcement authority through the Attorney General. The document uses mandatory language throughout and establishes specific penalties for violations.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress; Senator Josh Hawley; Senator Richard Blumenthal; Senator Katie Britt; Senator Mark Warner; Senator Chris Murphy; Senator Mark Kelly
• Summary: The bill was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Hawley and five co-sponsors, as indicated in the header of the legislative document.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Entities: Covered entities (any person who owns, operates, or otherwise makes available an artificial intelligence chatbot to individuals in the United States)
• Summary: The document explicitly defines and targets 'covered entities' which are persons who own, operate, or make available AI chatbots. The obligations apply to those who design, develop, or make available AI chatbots, indicating both developers and deployers are targeted.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Attorney General of the United States; State Attorneys General
• Summary: The document explicitly designates the Attorney General as the primary enforcement authority with powers to bring civil actions, issue subpoenas, and impose penalties. State attorneys general are also granted enforcement authority as parens patriae.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Attorney General of the United States
• Summary: The Attorney General is granted investigatory powers including the ability to issue subpoenas, administer oaths, and compel production of documents, which are monitoring and oversight functions. The document also requires covered entities to maintain compliance through periodic age verification reviews.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with some coverage of Build and Use Model stage. It focuses on requirements for deploying AI chatbots to users (age verification, user accounts, disclosures) and ongoing operational monitoring (periodic age verification reviews, data security maintenance). The Build stage is addressed through prohibitions on designing and developing chatbots with certain harmful characteristics.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Generative AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers 'artificial intelligence chatbot' and 'AI companion' as specific types of AI systems. It does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on interactive conversational AI systems that produce adaptive responses to user inputs.