{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T22:18:47.058590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"A bill that bans kids from using AI chatbots is gaining momentum","slug":"a-bill-that-bans-kids-from-using-ai-chatbots-is-gaining-momentum","published_at":"2026-05-04T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/a-bill-that-bans-kids-from-using-ai-chatbots-is-gaining-momentum","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/05/04/a-bill-that-bans-kids-from-using-ai-chatbots-is-gaining-momentum","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/05/04/tech_20260504_0504_MP_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01KQJCZ32MWXEBTMMKFRSJQVCK","summary":"The GUARD Act is a bipartisan bill that would prohibit companies from letting kids under 18 interact with what the legislation calls \"AI companions,” which are chatbots designed to encourage the simulation of an interpersonal relationship. This comes after some harrowing stories of teenagers who developed relationships with chatbots and then harmed themselves or others. The bill just passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes talks about this with Ashley Gold, a senior tech policy reporter at Axios.","meta_description":"The GUARD Act is a bipartisan bill that would prohibit companies from letting kids under 18 interact with what the legislation calls \"AI companions,” whic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":446,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/a-bill-that-bans-kids-from-using-ai-chatbots-is-gaining-momentum/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/a-bill-that-bans-kids-from-using-ai-chatbots-is-gaining-momentum.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}