Every law shaping AI companions, tracked in one place.
Disclosure rules, age assurance, crisis protocols and enforcement for AI companion apps, reviewed regularly and linked to primary sources.
- Rules tracked
- 8
- Jurisdictions
- 8
- Last reviewed
- 9 November 2026
Providers must make clear to users that they are interacting with an AI system, with labelling duties for synthetic content.
Disclosure that the companion is AI, protocols for users expressing self-harm, and extra protections for minors.
Requires detection of and response to suicidal ideation and periodic reminders that the user is talking to an AI.
Services that allow pornographic or other harmful content must use highly effective age assurance.
Federal study of how companion chatbot providers measure, test and monitor potential harms to children and teens.
The Garante has taken enforcement action against a companion app over data processing and age-verification failings.
eSafety codes extending age-assurance and safety duties to services including AI companion chatbots.
Content, security assessment and registration obligations for public-facing generative AI services.
The Docket
All legal news →- Time to Ban AI CompanionsFirst Things
- AI Chatbot Liability Lawsuits: Tracker of Youth-Harm and Companion-Chatbot CasesFourWeekMBA
- New York Bans AI Chatbots From Posing as Friends to KidsLegalScoops
- New York signs AI chatbot safety law for minorsDigital Watch Observatory
- New York bans minors from using AI companion chatbotsTürkiye Today
- Hochul Signs Chatbot Safety Law That Reaches ChatGPT and Claude, Not Just Companion AppsTech Times
- New York Enacts Prohibition on Unsafe AI Companion Features for Minors, S9051-Bwww.akingump.com
- New York's governor signs youth AI chatbot safety billIAPP
- Another win for kids: AI chatbot protections signed into lawNYSUT.org
- best 3d ai companion with consent and age verification小豆島町
Compliance glossary
All terms →An AI companion app is a consumer application, usually on iOS, Android or the web, where users chat with one or more AI characters; well-known examples include Character.AI, Replika, Nomi and Kindroid.
AI girlfriend / AI boyfriend appAn AI girlfriend or boyfriend app is an AI companion app positioned around romantic relationships, where the character is framed as a partner rather than a friend or assistant.
Character chatCharacter chat is the model, popularised by Character.AI, where users talk to a large library of user-created or brand-created characters instead of a single personal companion.
Long-term memoryLong-term memory is a companion's ability to recall facts, preferences and events from earlier conversations, typically by storing summaries or embeddings and retrieving them into the model's context.
Context windowThe context window is the amount of text a language model can consider at once; companion apps fill it with the persona, recent messages and retrieved memories.
Role-play (RP)Role-play is interactive fiction in which the user and an AI character co-write a scenario, one of the largest use cases for character chat platforms.