Prominent youth online safety advocacy organizations are urging Congress to reject an attempt to block state laws on artificial intelligence, warning such a move would undo new protections for children and teenagers.
“It is just as we begin to see progress in the states after a decade of fighting for protections for young people, that Congress threatens to rip those safeguards away,” the groups, including Design It For Us, Encode, Young People’s Alliance, and Parents RISE, said in a letter Tuesday to House and Senate Armed Services committee leaders. More than 2,100 advocates, including parents and young people nationwide, signed ...