“To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit child pornography produced using artificial intelligence.”
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This section establishes the short title of the Act as the “Protecting Our Children in an AI World Act of 2025.”
This section eliminates the affirmative defense under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(c)(2) in prosecutions involving child pornography that is “computer generated” or otherwise described in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(8)(C), and it expands the definition of “sexually explicit conduct” in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(B) to include actual or simulated obscene exhibition of the clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female nipple. (Thus, the bill removes a defense that could be used in certain child pornography cases and broadens the conduct covered by federal child pornography law.) This section also includes a severability clause preserving the remainder of the Act if any provision is held unconstitutional.