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To strengthen his first-in-the-nation efforts to protect children and vulnerable users from predatory chatbots, Senator Padilla announced an amendment to Senate Bill 300 to bring age verification protocol in line with California’s landmark law, requiring chatbot operators to adhere to a stricter standard and requiring operators to prevent chatbots from producing or facilitating the exchange of any sexually explicit material or proposing any sexually explicit content in interactions with minors.
To strengthen his first-in-the-nation efforts to protect children and vulnerable users from predatory chatbots, Senator Padilla announced an amendment to Senate Bill 300 to bring age verification protocol in line with California’s landmark law, requiring chatbot operators to adhere to a stricter standard and requiring operators to prevent chatbots from producing or facilitating the exchange of any sexually explicit material or proposing any sexually explicit content in interactions with minors.
SACRAMENTO — On Wednesday, state Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) issued a statement in response to OpenAI’s announced ballot initiative designed to limit additional legal protections from abusive and predatory AI chatbots.
“I am disgusted to see Big Tech’s latest attempt to cut off and limit commonsense regulation of dangerous AI chatbots. This initiative is cynically designed to hijack my legislation, Senate Bill 243, which was a starting place to protect children, and makes it exceptionally difficult to modify or strengthen that law,” the state lawmaker said. “By freezing these protections into the Constitution, this initiative is attempting to halt all additional efforts to protect children and others from dangerous AI chatbot tools. Silicon Valley failed in their attempt to have Congress preempt state laws regulating AI tools, so now they’re trying to freeze future efforts here in California to enact safety regulations through this deceptive initiative.”
State Sen. Padilla noted that Senate Bill 243 was a critical first step towards making AI chatbots safer but was always meant to be exactly that—a first step.
“That is why I have introduced language into Senate Bill 300 this week to strengthen the law and continue our work to protect the public from dangerous chatbots,” he added.
Senator Padilla’s Senate Bill 243, the first-of-its-kind law in the nation, requires chatbot operators to implement critical, reasonable, and attainable safeguards around interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and provide families with a private right to pursue legal actions against noncompliant and negligent developers. The OpenAI ballot initiative uses the language of SB 243, which becomes law in January and would require a two-thirds vote in both houses of the California Legislature to create further chatbot protections.
To strengthen his first-in-the-nation efforts to protect children and vulnerable users from predatory chatbots, Senator Padilla announced an amendment to Senate Bill 300 to bring age verification protocol in line with California’s landmark law, requiring chatbot operators to adhere to a stricter standard and requiring operators to prevent chatbots from producing or facilitating the exchange of any sexually explicit material or proposing any sexually explicit content in interactions with minors.
OpenAI recently announced that ChatGPT will engage in sexually explicit content with users, creating a greater need for enhanced protections. SB 300 will be one of the first pieces of legislation heard in 2026, strengthening those regulations, the state senator’s statement reads.
The attached language will be amended into Senate Bill 300 at the beginning of the year, and the bill will be heard in the Senate in January.
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