# AI Companion Chatbot Safety Kit

- **Type**: Template (Kit)
- **Page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/templates/companion-chatbot-safety-kit
- **Formats**: DOCX and XLSX
- **Current version**: v1, built 2026-11-12

For AI companion chatbots under the US state laws on record: not-human notices, protections for minors, a crisis protocol for suicidal ideation and self-harm, and protocol publication, with a disclosure schedule, a crisis referral log and every recorded duty.

## What is inside

- Document: a notice, procedure or protocol to adapt for each recorded duty, citing its record
- Checklist sheet: every recorded duty with law, section, date, owner and status
- Laws sheet: every companion-chatbot law on record, including those whose duties are not yet recorded
- Disclosure schedule and crisis referral log
- Dates sheet from the records

## Laws and frameworks it is built from

- California companion chatbot law (SB 243) (California (United States)), Pending review · source-linked, checked 15 Oct 2026: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-california-sb-243-companion-chatbots
- Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) (Connecticut (United States)), Pending review · source-linked, checked 15 Oct 2026: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety
- New York AI companion safeguards (New York (United States)), Pending review · source-linked, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-ai-companion-safeguards
- Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225) (Washington State (United States)), Pending review · source-linked, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-washington-eshb-2225-ai-companion-chatbots

## Recorded duties it covers

- Offer an AI companion only if it contains a protocol to detect suicidal ideation or self-harm and refer users to crisis services (New York AI companion safeguards): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-new-york-gbl-1701-self-harm-protocol
- Tell users at the start of an AI companion interaction, and at least every three hours, that they are not communicating with a human (New York AI companion safeguards): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-new-york-gbl-1702-ai-notification
- Tell users that an AI companion chatbot is artificially generated and not human, at the start and at least every three hours (Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225)): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-washington-eshb-2225-ai-disclosure
- Where the user is known to be a minor or the chatbot is directed to minors, repeat the not-human notice at least every hour (Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225)): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-washington-eshb-2225-minor-disclosure
- Prevent sexually explicit content and manipulative engagement techniques with minors (Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225)): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-washington-eshb-2225-minor-content-and-engagement-safeguards
- Keep and run a protocol to detect suicidal ideation and self-harm and refer users to crisis resources (Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225)): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-washington-eshb-2225-self-harm-protocol
- Publish the self-harm protocol and the number of crisis referral notifications issued in the preceding calendar year (Washington AI companion chatbot law (ESHB 2225)): https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-washington-eshb-2225-protocol-publication

## Latest changes

First version, built from dataset d56995931cf8.

- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-12
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

> Built from structured summaries of official texts. Not legal advice. A record whose review status is not "verified" has not been confirmed against its official source by a named reviewer; open the official source before relying on any date or duty. How records are verified: https://aipolicytracker.org/verification.