Chatbots from both Meta And Openi In recent weeks, they have come under investigation, questioning how to protect young users from potential losses due to rapid development of AI.
Several whistleblowers also came forward with new allegations about dealing with Meta’s safety research, underlining issues that have been plagued by technical companies with large platforms for years.
The latest developments have inspired the senators to renew the call to motivate the corridor Kids Online Safety Act (Kosa)Purpose of lawStrengthen online securityFor children facing obstacles in previous sessions.
“There is really bipartisan anger, not only with meta, but also with these other social media platforms and virtual reality platforms and chatbots, which are deliberately harmful to our children, and it has stopped,” Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-Ten) said at a hearing on Tuesday. “enough is enough.”
After passing the Senate with bilateral support in July 2024, Kosa came close to cleaning the Congress last year.
However, it came down in the House, where some Republican members expressed concern about the capacity Censorship of conversation ideas,
In the eleventh hour attempt to achieve the bill across the Finnish line in December, the senators interacted with Elon Musk’s X update text, seeking to remove GOP concerns.
Musk, who was an important person in Trump’s class at that time, threw his weight behind the law after changes.
However, speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Eventually poured cold water on the push, saying that he still had reservation about Kosa Free speech implication,
Blackburn and Sen Richard Blutenal (D-C) re-presented the law in May, using the same language conversation last December.
In particular, the bill was supported by leadership from the beginning, in which both the Leader of the Senate’s majority John Theun (Rs.) And the Senate minority leader Chak Shumar (DN.Y) joined both as co-operatives.
See full report Thehill.com this weekend.
