This legislation, titled the Youth AI Privacy Act, is designed to safeguard minors from various risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. It mandates that entities making AI chatbots available to individuals under 18 implement specific safe design features and adhere to strict data privacy protections. The bill addresses concerns such as emotional dependency, deceptive advertising, and invasive data practices, which are identified as significant risks for developing minds. Key safe design features include requiring deployers to clearly disclose that users are interacting with an AI, not a human, and that content is AI-generated, with these disclosures recurring frequently during sessions. The bill also directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate regulations limiting the processing of a minor's personal data for generating or personalizing outputs, generally restricting it to data collected within the current session. Furthermore, it prohibits features designed to encourage compulsive use, such as rewards, push notifications (except disclosures), badges, unprompted outputs, and human-mimicking usage traces like typing bubbles. Regarding data privacy, the bill prohibits advertising to minors, profiling them using personal data, and processing or transferring their personal data to train algorithms, with limited exceptions for safety testing and harm identification. It also restricts the processing of input data from minors to specific purposes like current session output generation and risk mitigation. Enforcement is robust, allowing actions by the Federal Trade Commission , State Attorneys General, and providing a private right of action for parents or legal guardians to seek damages and injunctive relief. To further understand the impact of AI chatbots, the bill amends existing law to include AI chatbots in research on health and developmental effects on minors, authorizing significant appropriations for this purpose. It also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to incorporate AI chatbot usage questions into national health and behavioral surveys. The legislation clarifies that determining a deployer's "knowledge" of a user's minor status will be based on objective circumstances, without mandating age collection or age-gating functionalities.