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No opportunityKids online safety / AI

Require AI chatbots to flag messages from kids expressing suicidal ideation or an intention to harm others.

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No opportunityFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources were independently fetched and are REAL, live, and accurately quoted. (1) michaelbennet.com/priorities/keeping-colorados-kids-safe-online/ resolves and carries the promise text verbatim ('Require AI chatbots to flag messages from kids expressing suicidal ideation or an intention to harm others...') under 'Ensure Artificial Intelligence is Safe for Kids' on his campaign-for-Governor-of-Colorado platform, confirming this is a gubernatorial-office pledge, not a Senate pledge. (2) The Fox News report resolves and confirms Attorney General Phil Weiser defeated Bennet in the Colorado Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - so Bennet never obtained the office in which the promise was to be executed. (3) The Aug. 20, 2025 bennet.senate.gov release resolves and confirms Bennet CO-LED (with Schatz) a bipartisan letter to Meta whose Question 9 asks 'Do you have mental health referral protocols to support children identified by your chatbots as being at risk of self-harm.' I added a fourth independently verified source: Colorado HB26-1263 (Conversational AI Service Operator Requirements) is real - introduced Feb. 19, 2026, signed May 29, 2026, effective Aug. 12, 2026, requiring operators to 'establish protocols addressing suicidal ideation or self-harm' - but its prime sponsors are state legislators Camacho, Mabrey, Carson and Jodeh, NOT Bennet, so the enactment of the promise's substance in Colorado gives him no credit. Independently checked bennet.senate.gov's own site search for 'chatbot': it returns only two items (the Aug. 2025 Meta letter and a Mar. 21, 2023 letter to OpenAI/Microsoft/Snap/Google/Meta) - no sponsored or cosponsored federal bill imposing a flagging requirement. Party-blind test: a candidate of either party who loses the primary for the office the promise attaches to, and who has neither opposed nor legislatively advanced it elsewhere, is NO_OPPORTUNITY. Upgrading to ATTEMPTED/CHAMPIONED would over-credit oversight letters (which are inquiry, not a requirement, and largely predate the platform); downgrading to IGNORED/ABSTAINED would be factually wrong since he demonstrably engaged the issue in his Senate role. Confidence raised 0.6 to 0.7 on the added independent corroboration; residual uncertainty remains only because congress.gov cosponsor pages return 403, though a cosponsorship would almost certainly have generated a press release that his own site search does not show.

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