Columbus, Ohio (Wcmh)-Senator Jon Husted (R-OHIO) hopes to regulate the interactions of the students with AI and to propose an age check for AI chatbots.
“AI is an emerging technology that will be part of all aspects of our life and our economy, and we have to prepare the students for it, both the good and the bad,” said Husted.
Husted, a Republican, presented two AI regulation calculations this month that proposed laws that involve KI in K-12 training and protect minors who exploit AI chatbots. Husted said that his law on artificial intelligence in the Education Act (RECE) and children, which are damaged by AI Technology (chat) technology, would assist America to reconcile the advantages of the competition and to alleviate harmful components.
For the chat law, chatbots must prevent minor users from accessing sexually explicit material and drawing attention to the parents of children if they express thoughts of suicide. Husted introduced it just a few weeks after the Parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sued OpenaiIn the claim of the chatbot, the California teenager encouraged to die from suicide in April.
“Children are not prepared for this. We protect them in the physical world, right? “We also have to protect them in the digital world.”
Husted suggested that AI companies only enable access to chatbots if users create an account that is subject to the age check. Husted shows up The review of the New -Aage examination from Ohio for adult websites As an example of the technology he provides to be implemented.
The chat law would have to require users under the age of 18 to participate with a parent that is alerted if your child would express suicide thoughts. Smaller chatbot users would also be prevented from accessing sexually explicit content.
“AI will be a dominant technology to determine whether we will have an economic or military superiority for the future of our nation, and we have to lead,” said Husted.
Husted said the leadership in AI begins with education and invests China billions in the creation of AI fluent students. Husted’s cross -party Actric act would encourage states to introduce standards for AI formation by updating the language in the Grund- and secondary school law of 1965. Husted would like to update the part of the law that is responsible for the school’s technical standards and includes AI as an option for states.
Husted said the enhance law would assist to encourage all states to introduce AI training, although the draft law may be less needed in its home state. This year, Ohio became the first state K-12-KI guidelines in schools.
“To be honest, because we were in Ohio when I was a governor Leutnant here, I wanted the other countries to take the lead on board,” said Husted.
Husted’s work with AI started before he was Appointed Senate in early 2025. Before being appointed to the former seat of Vice President JD Vances, Husted helped develop early AI training and governance instruments for Ohioan as governor of the state.
Under his work at the state level, Husted helped updating the legislative code by using AI to identify redundant or contradictory rules. In March, Husted introduced a federal law to exploit AI in the same way. Just a few weeks earlier, Husted introduced non -partisan laws to ban the exploit of Deepseek – a KI platform Husted to ban the connections to the Chinese party’s Communist Party.
Some due to Husted’s work as a lieutenant governor, Ohio has become a breeding ground for AI companies. The Data Center Map places 121 of the 191 data centers in Ohio – which provide the physical infrastructure that enables AI and other servers to exist within Central Ohio.
Data centers require considerable energy and water consumption, and some inhabitants of Central -Ohio are Concerns of the requirements for resources. Husted said that it is arduous to compensate for the need for AI with resident wishes and said the municipalities with concerns about environmental or pension amounts do not have to allow data centers Pull in.
“We have to accept both sides of it, the good, and then try to defeat things that can be uncomfortable or bad,” he said. “And we can’t put our heads in the sand.”
