Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.

Summary

The bill mandates that any company offering a companion AI chatbot in Kansas must require users to register, verify their age with a commercial method, and classify them as minors or adults. For minors, a parent’s account and verifiable consent are required, and the chatbot must block suicidal or sexually explicit content. It also calls for pop‑up notices that the user is talking to an AI and sets enforcement under the state consumer‑protection law.

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