NY to Weigh AI Companion Chatbot Legal responsibility
New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D) is drafting a invoice that will make builders of AI companion chatbots chargeable for hurt these chatbots trigger to minors. The primary-in-the-nation proposal comes after a 14-year-old chatbot consumer took his personal life. Comparable laws may additionally come this 12 months in California. (PLURIBUS NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
IN Senate Panel Advances Beneath-16 Social Media Ban
Indiana’s Senate Judiciary Committee superior a invoice (SB 11) that will prohibit social media corporations from permitting these below the age of 16 from accessing their platforms with out parental consent. Earlier than approving the measure, the committee eliminated a provision that will have allowed mother and father or guardians to sue for violations. The accredited model would nonetheless allow the state’s AG to sue after giving social media operators 90 days to appropriate violations. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE)
NJ Concentrating on Social Media Promotion of Consuming Problems
The New Jersey Meeting handed a invoice (AB 4664) in December that will prohibit social media platforms from utilizing “a design, algorithm, follow, affordance, or function” that they know or “by the train of affordable care ought to have recognized, may trigger youngster customers to develop an consuming dysfunction, together with, however not restricted to, selling weight-reduction plan merchandise.” Platforms that violate the measure’s provisions can be topic to fines of as much as $250,000 per violation. The measure has been referred to the state’s Senate Commerce Committee. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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