United States of America: Senator released draft of TRUMP AMERICA AI Act including user rights

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 rights for users that covered platforms know to be minors, including safeguards to limit communications, restrict public access to personal data, limit by default design features encouraging compulsive usage, restrict geolocation sharing, and provide an option to limit time spent on the platform. Covered platforms would be required to offer prominently displayed options to opt out of personalized recommendation systems and to limit categories of recommendations, and to provide clear information about safeguards, parental tools, and recommendation systems prior to registration by a known minor, with verifiable parental consent required for children under 13. Parental tools, including the ability to manage account settings, restrict purchases, and restrict time spent on the platform, would be enabled by default for users known to be children. All users of platforms using opaque algorithms would have the right to switch to an input-transparent algorithm without differential pricing. The Act would establish a property right for individuals to authorise the use of their voice or visual likeness in digital replicas, licensable and surviving the death of the individual. The Act would further establish a federal product liability framework for AI systems under which developers would be liable for defective design, failure to warn, express warranty breaches, and unreasonably dangerous products. Strict liability would apply to unreasonably dangerous or defective AI products regardless of the care exercised. Deployers would be liable where they substantially modify a system or intentionally misuse it. Contractual terms waiving, restricting, or unreasonably limiting liability in both developer-deployer contracts and end-user terms and conditions would be unenforceable. Individuals and classes of individuals would have the right to bring a federal civil action to obtain damages, restitution, injunctive relief, and attorney fees, with a 4-year limitation period.