{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/12/technology/blackburn-unveils-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence", "Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence", "2025-12-19", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Marsha Blackburn", "B001243", "www.blackburn.senate.gov", "blackburn", "https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/news/cc8c80c1-d564-4bbb-93a4-f1d772346ae0", "scraper", "NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) unveiled a section-by-section summary of The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry (TRUMP AMERICA AI Act). This legislative framework would codify President Trump\u2019s executive order to create one rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI) that protects children, creators, conservatives, and communities from harm while ensuring the United States wins the global race for AI supremacy.\n\n\u201cInstead of pushing AI amnesty, President Trump rightfully called on Congress to pass federal standards and protections to solve the patchwork of state laws that have hindered AI innovation,\u201d said Senator Blackburn. \u201cI look forward to introducing the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities across the country and ensure America triumphs over foreign adversaries in the global race for AI dominance.\u201d\n\nTRUMP AMERICA AI ACT\n\nBelow is a summary of how Senator Blackburn\u2019s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would protect the \u201c4 Cs\u201d (children, creators, conservatives, and communities) from exploitation, abuse, and censorship and ensure American AI companies can innovate without cumbersome regulation. This framework includes legislation Senator Blackburn has previously introduced, the Kids Online Safety Act and NO FAKES Act, to protect children and creators.\n\nProtecting Children\n\nPlaces a duty of care on AI developers in the design, development, and operation of AI platforms to prevent and mitigate foreseeable harm to users.\n\nRequires AI platforms to conduct regular risk assessments of how algorithmic systems, engagement mechanics, and data practices contribute to psychological, physical, financial, and exploitative harms.\n\nReforms Section 230 by incentivizing the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children\u2019s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material.\n\nRequiring interactive computer services to notify users that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist the user limit access to material that is harmful to minors.\n\nRequires covered online platforms, including social media platforms, to implement tools and safeguards to protect users and visitors under the age of 17 to protect children from sex trafficking, suicide, and other abuses.\n\nRequires covered platforms to exercise reasonable care in the design and use of features that increase minors\u2019 online activity to prevent and mitigate harm to minors (e.g., mental health disorders and severe harassment).\n\nRequires covered platforms to provide certain safeguards to minors, such as protections for minors\u2019 data; tools for parents of minors, such as access to minors\u2019 privacy settings; and a mechanism for account holders and visitors to report harm to minors on the platform.\n\nProhibits covered platforms from conducting market or product research on children under the age of 13 and may only conduct research on those under the age of 17 with parental consent.\n\nEstablishes requirements for companies providing AI chatbot and companion services to protect kids.\n\nPrevents systemically important platforms from disseminating sexual material harmful to minors.\n\nProtecting Creators\n\nCreates a federal right for individuals to sue companies for using their data (personal, copyrighted) for AI training without explicit consent and requires affirmative consent for data use in AI models, addressing issues like unauthorized scraping of creative works.\n\nAddresses the use of non-consensual digital replications in audiovisual works, images, or sound recordings by:\n\nHolding individuals or companies liable if they produce an unauthorized digital replica of an individual in a performance.\n\nHolding platforms liable for hosting an unauthorized digital replica if the platform has actual knowledge of the fact that the replica was not authorized by the individual depicted.\n\nDeems derivative works generated, synthesized, or produced by an AI system without authorization as infringing works, which would be ineligible for copyright protection.\n\nPreserves and promotes competition among AI developers by mandating nondiscriminatory access to licensed content.\n\nProtecting Conservatives\n\nCombats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:\n\nAudits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characteristics, including political affiliation.\n\nHigh-risk AI systems cover those that could pose significant risks to health, safety, rights, or economic security, including those in education, employment, law enforcement, or critical infrastructure.\n\nFederal agencies and covered entities to provide AI ethics training to personnel.\n\nCovered entities are any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity engaged in the development, deployment, or operation of AI systems, including federal agencies, that meet thresholds established by the Federal Trade Commission.\n\nProtecting Communities\n\nRequires certain companies and federal agencies to issue reports on AI-related job effects, including layoffs and job displacement to the Department of Labor (DOL) on a quarterly basis.\n\nRequires the DOL to compile data on AI-related job effects and publish a report to Congress and the public.\n\nRequires data center operators to be responsible for the full cost of all energy and water infrastructure needed for their operation, including construction, maintenance, and upgrades with no impact on ratepayers.\n\nClick here to read the full section-by-section summary of the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act.\n\nENDORSEMENTS\n\nThis legislative framework is supported by Mike Davis and Steve Bannon:\n\n\u201cSenator Marsha Blackburn\u2019s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is a major MAGA victory that follows President Trump\u2019s leadership in putting America first in the AI race while protecting our values and our freedoms. This bill protects the Four C\u2019s: children, conservatives, communities, and creators. This bill finally forces Big Tech to build in real guardrails... It pushes back on blue-state speech policing and bias mandates, ensuring AI isn\u2019t weaponized to silence lawful viewpoints. It prioritizes American workers and infrastructure... Finally, the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act establishes national rules on training data, deepfakes, and AI-generated knockoffs so artists, writers, and innovators get paid and protected. President Trump\u2019s executive order set the national policy: end the 50-state patchwork, stop coercive \u2018algorithmic discrimination\u2019 mandates that force false outputs, and preempt unlawful state overreach. Senator Blackburn\u2019s bill puts that vision into action... This is how we make America the global leader in AI: a single, constitutional framework that unleashes our entrepreneurs, safeguards our rights, and serves our people. President Trump is leading. Senator Blackburn is delivering. Congress should pass the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act and keep America great, and first, in AI,\u201d said Mike Davis, Founder and President of the Article III Project.\n\n\u201cOver the summer, Senator Blackburn led the movement to defeat the AI amnesty push in the One Big Beautiful Bill, and she has been a fierce advocate in protecting all Americans from the abuse of AI. The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would establish an enforceable federal standard to ensure that tech bros can\u2019t get rich by exploiting Americans in the AI Wild West,\u201d said Steve Bannon, Host of the War Room on Real America\u2019s Voice News.\n\nRELATED\n\nVIDEO: Blackburn Leads Effort to Remove AI Moratorium from Big Beautiful Bill, Protecting Tennessee Creators & Kids from Harm\n\nBlackburn, Blumenthal, Thune, and Schumer Introduce the Kids Online Safety Act", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/12/technology/blackburn-unveils-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6141170635819435, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}