White House AI Framework Requires Measures to Protect Kids; Child Safety Advocates Want More
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
Published on March 20, 2026.
The White House has released a draft draft of the National Framework on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which requires measures to protect children from potential harms while empowering parents to control their children's digital environment and upbringing. The framework is intended to provide a template for federal legislation. However, child safety advocates have expressed a need for more measures. Michael Kratsios, science and technology adviser to the president, said the need is for a national AI framework, not a 50-state patchwork. The draft framework also includes a call for Congress to ensure that it does not preempt states from enforcing their own generally applicable laws regarding child sexual abuse material, even where such material is generated by AI.
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