AWARE Act

Proposed 2025-09-15 | Official source

Summary

Directs the Federal Trade Commission to develop and publicly provide educational resources regarding minors' safe and responsible use of AI chatbots, covering safety identification, privacy practices, and best parental supervision practices, modeled on the Commission's Youville program.

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🏛️ This document has been proposed by the United States Congress, but is not yet enacted. For authoritative text and metadata, visit the official source.

📜 This document's name is AI Warnings And Resources for Education Act. AGORA also tracks this document under the name AWARE Act.

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A BILL To direct the Federal Trade Commission to develop and make available to the public educational resources for parents, educators, and minors with respect to the safe and responsible use of AI chatbots by minors, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the “AI Warnings And Resources for Education Act” or the “AWARE Act”.

SEC. 2. AI chatbots and minors. (a) Educational resources.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission, in consultation with relevant Federal agencies, shall develop and make available to the public educational resources for parents, educators, and minors with respect to the safe and responsible use of AI chatbots by minors. (b) Contents.—The educational resources developed and made available under subsection (a) shall include resources on— (1) how to identify safe and unsafe AI chatbot use; (2) privacy and data collection practices; and (3) best practices for parents supervising the use of AI chatbots by minors. (c) Youville.—The Commission shall model the educational resources developed and made available under subsection (a) on the Youville program of the Commission.

(d) Definitions.—In this section: (1) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term “artificial intelligence” has the meaning given such term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). (2) AI CHATBOT.—The term “AI chatbot” means an artificial intelligence system, marketed to and available for use by consumers, that engages in interactive, natural-language communication with a user and generates or selects content in response to user inputs (including text, voice, or other inputs) using a conversational context. (3) COMMISSION.—The term “Commission” means the Federal Trade Commission. (4) MINOR.—The term “minor” means an individual under the age of 18 years. (5) PARENT.—The term “parent” includes a legal guardian of a minor.