Conversational AI Services Requirements (HR9757)

Current understanding

HR9757 is a House bill introduced to establish federal requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services. Public detail on specific mechanisms is limited at introduction, but the bill signals a category-specific approach to conversational AI (distinct from horizontal AI governance proposals) that could impose new obligations on developers and platforms offering chatbot-style interfaces. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2025-01-13 — To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish technical and procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice systems created through generative artificial intelligence, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with generative-ai-prerecorded-voice-tcpa-hr334: Both extend consumer-protection rules to AI-mediated voice/conversational interactions, with HR334 targeting FCC-regulated prerecorded telephone calls and HR9757 targeting conversational AI services more broadly. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-28 — A bill to establish protections for minors who use companion artificial intelligence chatbots, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with companion-ai-chatbots-minors-protection-s5154: HR9757 sets general conversational-AI service requirements; S5154 carves out a minors-and-companion-chatbot subset of that space. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-23 — A bill to establish consumer transparency and protection requirements for artificial intelligence chatbots, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with ai-chatbot-consumer-transparency: Both target consumer-facing conversational AI; HR9757 sets requirements/guidelines for conversational AI services while S5117 imposes transparency/protection duties on chatbot providers. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-23 — To prohibit stealth bots, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with stealth-bots-prohibition: Overlap on requiring disclosure that a user is interacting with automated/AI systems rather than a human. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-16 — To establish requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with ai-chatbot-data-privacy-security-hr9619: Both HR9757 and HR9619 target chatbot/conversational AI services with federal requirements, forming a parallel legislative track focused on this specific product category. (novelty: 3)

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