The Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition is a growing alliance of parents, educators, kids’ safety advocates, social justice and business leaders, technology companies, and community groups urging the California Legislature to pass comprehensive AI child-safety legislation in 2026. We support clear, enforceable standards that protect children, empower parents, and keep pace with evolving AI technology.
Any comprehensive AI child-safety legislation should include these core protections:
Age Assurance
Require AI companies to use age estimation technology to distinguish children from adults. When age cannot be determined, default to protective safegaurds.
Parental Controls
Require simple, easy-to-use parental controls to manage time, privacy, and features—including an option to notify parents if a system detects a material risk of severe harm.
Protect Kids from Inappropriate Content
Require safeguards to keep systems from creating emotional dependence, such as by simulating romantic relationships.
Require AI companies to design their systems to protect children from content that is sexually explicit, violent or that promotes self-harm, with periodic reminders that users are interacting with AI, not a human.
Protect Kids’ Personal Information and Data
Prohibit AI companies from targeting advertising to children or selling children’s personal data without parental consent.
Annual Risk Assessments to Ensure Protections Evolve as Technology Evolves
AI companies to conduct comprehensive, yearly reviews to identify and address new and existing child safety risks—ensuring protections evolve alongside technology.
Independent Third-Party Audits for Transparency & Oversight
Require AI companies to submit to annual independent audits, with results submitted to the Attorney General and publicly reported—so companies stay compliant and Californians stay informed.