Crime

Following an explosive Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing that exposed the harm AI chatbots have caused to children, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) issued document requests to Character.AI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Snap Inc. demanding they turn over all communications related to their AI chatbot policies.  In the letters, Senator Hawley, who chairs the committee, noted the testimony of several parents who lost their children to suicide at...

'Every Parent's Worst Nightmare' U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, held a hearing to expose the growing harms to children posed by online chatbots like Character.AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta. The hearing featured new testimony from parents of chatbot victims as well as AI safety experts and psychologists—one of whom recently issued a health advisory for AI chatbots.One mother...

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect consumers’ data rights and hold Big Tech companies accountable for illegally pirating creators' copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. Senator Hawley's legislation follows his recent Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing where he sounded the alarm on AI companies' willful engagement in "the largest...

Today, U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) advanced their STOP CSAM Act unanimously through a Senate Judiciary Committee markup. The legislation would crack down on the proliferation of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by allowing victims to sue companies that host it. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.,), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.)...