Will give only parents or guardians authority to turn off the default non-human-like chatbot setting for minors.

George Whitesides · California · Democratic

policy impact 0.60 specificity 0.90 extraction confidence 87%

Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Limit authority to turn off the default child-protection chatbot setting to parents or guardians.. Promised outcome: Keep parents in control of whether minors can access human-like chatbot features.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. U.S. House press release announcing Rep. George Whitesides' Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act during his current term representing California's 27th District.

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Evidence

verified · Source version 88415 · locator 6087

the parent or legal guardian of a user who is a minor shall have exclusive authority to adjust

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Whitesides introduced H.R. 10719, which was referred to two House committees. Section 2(e) proposes exclusive parental or guardian control, but exempts school-managed deployments, allowing authorized educators to adjust the setting for educational purposes. This establishes legislative effort, not delivery. No enactment or other delivery was found during the October 21–23 lookback; the commitment remains unresolved.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H. R. 10719 (Introduced-in-House)
secondary · model gpt-6.1-sol · confidence 96%

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verified · Source version 88416 · locator 5120

Only a parent or guardian can turn the default off, so chatbots are not able to show kids how to disable it.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Whitesides's official announcement explicitly identifies parental authority to disable the default as an objective of his introduced bipartisan legislation. It documents concrete effort toward this commitment, without establishing enactment or implementation.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Rep. Whitesides Introduces Bipartisan Legislation To Protect Children from Human-Like Chatbots | Representative George Whitesides
primary · model gpt-6.1-sol · confidence 99%

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Public state: pending As of 2026-10-23 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown

The verified passages describe the parental-control requirement but establish neither enactment nor implementation. They do not independently verify Whitesides’s introduction, sponsorship, or material advancement of the legislation; those assertions appear in untrusted summaries. No deadline is documented, so neither failure nor partial delivery is established as of October 23, 2026.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-6.1-sol · confidence 96%