Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework For Artificial Intelligence.

Nashville, Tenn, USA; December 2025: On December 19th U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (Republican – Senator Tenn) unveiled a section-by-section summary of The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry (TRUMP AMERICA AI Act).

This legislative framework would codify President Trump’s executive order to create one rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI) that protects children, creators, conservatives, and communities from harm while ensuring the United States wins the global race for AI supremacy. Senator Blackburn said,

“Instead of pushing AI amnesty, President Trump rightfully called on Congress to pass federal standards and protections to solve the patchwork of state laws that have hindered AI innovation. I look forward to introducing the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities across the country and ensure America triumphs over foreign adversaries in the global race for AI dominance”.

TRUMP AMERICA AI ACT –

Below is a summary of how Senator Blackburn’s TRUMP AMERICA AI Act would protect the “4 C’s” (Children, Creators, Conservatives, Communities) from exploitation, abuse, and censorship and ensure American AI companies can innovate without cumbersome regulation. This framework includes legislation Senator Blackburn has previously introduced, the Kids Online Safety Act and NO FAKES Act, to protect children and creators.

Protecting Children:

• Places a duty of care on AI developers in the design, development, and operation of AI platforms to prevent and mitigate foreseeable harm to users.

• Requires AI platforms to conduct regular risk assessments of how algorithmic systems, engagement mechanics, and data practices contribute to psychological, physical, financial, and exploitative harms.

• Reforms Section 230 by incentivizing the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material.

• Requiring interactive computer services to notify users that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist the user limit access to material that is harmful to minors.

• Requires covered online platforms, including social media platforms, to implement tools and safeguards to protect users and visitors under the age of 17 to protect children from sex trafficking, suicide, and other abuses.

• Requires covered platforms to exercise reasonable care in the design and use of features that increase minors’ online activity to prevent and mitigate harm to minors (e.g., mental health disorders and severe harassment).   

• Requires covered platforms to provide certain safeguards to minors, such as protections for minors’ data; tools for parents of minors, such as access to minors’ privacy settings; and a mechanism for account holders and visitors to report harm to minors on the platform.  

• Prohibits covered platforms from conducting market or product research on children under the age of 13 and may only conduct research on those under the age of 17 with parental consent.

• Establishes requirements for companies providing AI chatbot and companion services to protect kids.

• Prevents systemically important platforms from disseminating sexual material harmful to minors.

Protecting Creators:

• Creates a federal right for individuals to sue companies for using their data (personal, copyrighted) for AI training without explicit consent and requires affirmative consent for data use in AI models, addressing issues like unauthorized scraping of creative works.

• Addresses the use of non-consensual digital replications in audio-visual works, images, or sound recordings by:

• Holding individuals or companies liable if they produce an unauthorized digital replica of an individual in a performance.

• Holding platforms liable for hosting an unauthorized digital replica if the platform has actual knowledge of the fact that the replica was not authorized by the individual depicted.

• Deems derivative works generated, synthesised, or produced by an AI system without authorization as infringing works, which would be ineligible for copyright protection.

• Preserves and promotes competition among AI developers by mandating non-discriminatory access to licensed content.

Protecting Conservatives:

• Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:

• Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characteristics, including political affiliation.

• High-risk AI systems cover those that could pose significant risks to health, safety, rights, or economic security, including those in education, employment, law enforcement, or critical infrastructure.

• Federal agencies and covered entities to provide AI ethics training to personnel.

• Covered entities are any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity engaged in the development, deployment, or operation of AI systems, including federal agencies, that meet thresholds established by the Federal Trade Commission.

Protecting Communities:

• Requires certain companies and federal agencies to issue reports on AI-related job effects, including layoffs and job displacement to the Department of Labour (DOL) on a quarterly basis.

• Requires the DOL to compile data on AI-related job effects and publish a report to Congress and the public.

• Requires data centre operators to be responsible for the full cost of all energy and water infrastructure needed for their operation, including construction, maintenance, and upgrades with no impact on ratepayers.

Team Maverick.