United States of America: Senator released draft of TRUMP AMERICA AI Act including design requirement

On 18 March 2026, a United States Senator released a discussion draft of The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act. The Act would establish a duty of care governing the design, development, and operation of AI chatbots, with minimum reasonable safeguards to be established by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). With respect to covered platforms, the Act would regulate design features affecting minors, including infinite scrolling, auto playing, rewards for time spent on the platform, and notifications, and would require that default settings for minors reflect the most protective level of control offered by the platform. The Act would further prohibit platforms from designing or manipulating user interfaces with the purpose or substantial effect of impairing user autonomy with respect to safeguards or parental tools, and would prohibit minors from accessing AI companion services following age verification. Platforms using opaque algorithms would be required to notify users of the algorithm's use, features, inputs, parameters, data categories, and optimisation targets, and to enable users to switch to an input-transparent alternative without differential pricing. AI chatbots would be required to disclose their non-human status at the initiation of each conversation and at 30-minute intervals, and to disclose that they do not provide medical, legal, financial, or psychological services. Beginning 2 years after enactment, persons making available for a commercial purpose a tool used primarily for creating synthetic or synthetically-modified content would be required to provide users with the ability to include content provenance information and to establish reasonable security measures ensuring such information is machine-readable and not easily removed, altered, or separated from the underlying content.