The bipartisan bill would create a first-in-the-nation ban on the use of companion-style AI chatbots by people under age 18.

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A large number of students use AI to ghostwrite homework, blindly trust AI, and some have even become addicted to AI chat, a phenomenon that should concern parents, schools and government, they said, ...