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Young lawmakers talk online child safety and AI policy at annual bipartisan summit

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A bipartisan group of young lawmakers gathered at an annual summit to discuss online child safety and AI policy. The meeting brought together legislators across party lines to exchange views on two of the most contested areas of digital regulation.

Why this matters: Child safety online and AI regulation are the two issues most likely to produce actual legislation in the near term. When young lawmakers from both parties meet to talk about them together, that matters. The policies they shape will decide how platforms are held accountable, what data companies can collect on minors, and how much of daily life AI can quietly govern. What gets agreed on in rooms like this eventually becomes the rules everyone else lives under.

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