FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, December 15, 2025
NEWS RELEASE
Kobach Confronts Big Tech’s AI Companion Chatbots
Stop Hiding Behind Empty Promises and Protect Our Kids
TOPEKA – (Dec. 15, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is demanding answers from the artificial intelligence industry for “disturbing and inappropriate outcomes” caused by Big Tech’s AI companion chatbots.
In a blistering open letter sent to major AI developers, Kobach put the industry on notice: Implement a significant course correction or be held accountable. Kansas is prepared to enforce civil and criminal liability against companies that prioritize profits and speed over safeguards for children, parents, and consumers.
“We’re seeing a very concerning trend where Big Tech releases AI products without meaningful safeguards,” Kobach said. “With each iteration of their AI, Big Tech offers vague promises about product safety and parental controls only to blame the child, parent, or consumer when faced with AI’s real-life harms. My team and I are watching, and we are demanding more of Big Tech than its usual buzz words.”
The Attorney General’s letter highlights a recent case in Topeka where a sexual predator used AI to generate thousands of images depicting child sexual abuse material. The letter also cites multiple national reports where AI encouraged teen suicide, validated self-harm as feeling good, and promoted sexualized interactions with minors.
“When some AI platforms are marketing themselves with slogans like ‘AI girls never say no,’ we’ve got a serious, despicable problem,” Kobach said. “That’s not a glitch in AI. It’s a failure of corporate accountability.”
The Attorney General’s letter demands the AI companies respond by January 30, 2026, and demonstrate how companies can ensure user safety, prevent illicit conduct, and comply with Kansas’s age verification law.
The letter says Kansas law modernizes with the times. If “you have misrepresented or exaggerated the safety of your AI products or provided harmful materials to minors,” the letter warns, “you may have to answer for it in Kansas.”
Read Attorney General Kobach’s letter here.
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