Summary
Adopts the Conversational Artificial Intelligence Safety Act as part of LB525. The act applies to operators of publicly available conversational AI services, requires AI-human disclosure when users could be misled and enhanced disclosures for minor account holders, restricts engagement incentives and specified sexual or human-impersonation outputs for minors, requires suicide and self-harm response protocols, prohibits operators from intentionally representing conversational AI services as designed to provide professional mental or behavioral health care, and authorizes Attorney General enforcement.
Healthcare Implications
Applies to mental-health-adjacent consumer AI services and AI companion/chatbot operators, including services that could be used by minors or by users seeking emotional support. Healthcare relevance is focused on suicide/self-harm escalation and preventing covered chatbots from being presented as professional mental or behavioral health care, rather than on clinical AI used inside healthcare organizations.
Operational Implications
- Operators must clearly and conspicuously disclose that the service is AI when a reasonable person would otherwise be misled; minor account holders must receive persistent visible disclosure or session-start disclosure with reminders at least every three hours during continuous interaction.
- Operators must adopt a protocol for user prompts about suicidal ideation or self-harm that includes reasonable efforts to refer users to crisis service providers such as a suicide hotline, crisis text line, or other appropriate crisis service.
- Operators must implement minor-specific protections, including limits on unpredictable engagement rewards, reasonable measures to prevent sexually explicit outputs and sexually objectifying statements, measures to prevent sentience or human claims, simulated emotional dependence, romantic or sexual innuendo, and adult-minor relationship role play, and privacy/account-setting tools for minors and parents or guardians where appropriate.
- Operators may not knowingly and intentionally program a conversational AI service to state that it is designed to provide professional mental or behavioral health care.