STATEMENT: Senate Commerce Advances the Kids Online Safety Act
The Senate version of KOSA is the most protective, popular, and bipartisan of all children’s online safety legislation under consideration. It provides an essential duty of care that will force online platforms to act in children’s best interests.
STATEMENT: Survivor Parents Applaud the Senate Commerce Committee’s Decision to Markup the Kids Online Safety Act
As parents who have lost children to online harms, we are glad to know that KOSA is scheduled for markup next week. We have championed this bipartisan bill for many years because its duty of care and safeguards are needed to prevent other children from dying as our own children did.
STATEMENT: ParentsSOS Responds to Passage of the KIDS Act
ParentsSOS welcomes this opportunity to move forward on discussions with House and Senate leaders on passing a strong version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) with a duty of care this year.
STATEMENT: The Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act (H.R. 7757)
The bipartisan package contains meaningful improvements that our members have advocated for, including provisions that protect states’ ability to issue stronger regulations and hold tech companies accountable for the presence of children and teens on their platforms.
Survivor Parents Disappointed by Lack of Parent Voices on Federal Trade Commission Age Verification Workshop
We know better and more intimately than anyone in that room the true costs of the failure of Big Tech companies to protect children, and we have long driven the national conversation about online harms.
Artificial Intelligence Executive Order Will Cause More Life-Threatening Online Harms
As survivor parents, we have been devastated by stories of children dying by suicide after being encouraged by AI chatbots. We cannot let Big Tech companies experiment on our children and expand with impunity when their products are known to cause irreparable harm.
Survivor Parents Welcome New Legislative Action on AI Chatbots, Calling for Stricter Safeguards for Kids
We stand by the families who have been tragically affected by unsafe artificial intelligence chatbots and we appreciate the intent behind the GUARD Act, which is an important step in the right direction to prevent kids from experiencing harm online.
Survivor Parents Skewer OpenAI CEO for Harassing Family of Dead Teen
“It is unfathomable to us that a company that caused such loss and grief would be so cruel as to serve the grieving family a legal request to produce information about who attended their child’s funeral. It is a heartless move that demonstrates your company’s prioritization of profit and unchecked ambition over basic human decency.”
Survivor Parents to Congressional Leaders: Don't Bring Back the AI Moratorium
We are deeply concerned by ongoing efforts to revive the moratorium via legislation or the administration’s forthcoming AI Action Plan. We urge congressional leadership to support families in this evolving AI landscape and ensure they can continue to rely on the efforts of State Attorneys General to enforce AI safety protections.
Last week, the Senate helped American families protect their kids online
We are profoundly grateful to Senators Marsha Blackburn (R – Tenn.), Susan Collins (R – Maine), Maria Cantwell (D – Wash.) and Ed Markey (D – Mass.) for their leadership in sponsoring the amendment to remove the reckless AI state law moratorium.
Statement on Senate Removal of AI State Law Moratorium: A Major Victory for Kids’ Online Safety
We are especially grateful to Senator Marsha Blackburn for her tireless leadership and bipartisan work with Senator Cantwell to lead an amendment that struck the moratorium from the bill entirely. Their courageous stance helped unite the Senate in a rare 99-1 vote to do the right thing for kids.
Google’s Rollout of Gemini AI to Minors: Another Reckless Experiment on Kids Who Can’t Consent
Google’s Gemini AI chatbot rollout shows, once again, that Big Tech is willing to push forward with emerging technologies despite the risk, especially when those risks fall on the most vulnerable users.