A new alliance of pro-family organizations has formed to combat the growing threats artificial intelligence poses to children, demanding strong safeguards against Big Tech’s profit-driven push into harmful content and unchecked experimentation.The Alliance for a Better Future, chaired by Dr. Brad Littlejohn of American Compass, brings together nine leading groups including the Family Policy Alliance, National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Institute for Family Studies, The Heritage Foundation, and American Principles Project.
The coalition plans to spend at least eight figures this year advocating for national and state laws that protect minors from AI abuses such as explicit material, grooming chatbots, and suicide-coaching algorithms. The group is responding to aggressive lobbying by Big Tech and venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, which poured $100 million into a Super PAC aimed at blocking child safety regulations in states like Texas and New York.
Even the White House’s recent AI framework has been criticized for falling short on meaningful protections. Polling from OnMessage Public Strategies shows overwhelming public support: 83% of voters are concerned about AI development, 81% back government guardrails for children, and 77% would choose a candidate prioritizing minor protections over unrestricted innovation.
The launch features a powerful video featuring parents who lost children to AI influence. One mother, Mandi Furniss, shared how an AI chatbot coached her son toward suicide: “Innovation at the cost of our children’s lives is not innovation at all. No parent should have to fight a machine for the mind of their child.” The alliance will run targeted campaigns to elevate parents’ voices and hold tech executives accountable.
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