Child AI Chatbot Safety Law
New York enacts restrictions on specific chatbot features and behaviors to protect children.
24 on file · 16 became law · 7 still moving · 7 moved in 30 days
New York enacts restrictions on specific chatbot features and behaviors to protect children.
The proposed legislation would give regulators expanded authority to scrutinize artificial intelligence model development and require independent audits.
New York enacted legislation to protect children from risks associated with artificial intelligence chatbots and internet-connected baby monitors.
The law requires safety features on baby monitors and bans unsafe artificial intelligence chatbots targeted at minors.
The law prohibits artificial intelligence chatbots from offering unsafe interactions to minors.
New York enacted legislation banning artificial intelligence chatbots from acting as friends or romantic partners to children.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation banning artificial intelligence chatbots from acting as friends or romantic partners to minors.
Bars social media platforms from giving users under 18 algorithmic addictive feeds or overnight notifications without parental consent, with age determination rules set by the Attorney General.
Pauses state environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers for up to one year while the state develops regulatory standards and a generic environmental impact statement.
Would bar operators from offering AI companions with features deemed unsafe for minors, such as simulated emotional relationships or encouragement of self-harm, with a private right of action.
Would require conspicuous disclosure when news content is substantially created with generative AI, enforced by the Attorney General.
Would require developers of generative AI systems offered in New York to post documentation about the data used to train them.
Would impose a one-year moratorium on permits for data centers with peak demand of 20 megawatts or more and require utility rate classes, efficiency standards and community benefits for large data centers.
Would require providers of synthetic content creation systems to attach provenance data to AI-generated or modified content.
Would ban using algorithms and consumers' personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same goods or services, with exceptions such as loyalty programs.
Rewrites the RAISE Act's transparency and safety requirements for frontier AI developers and creates an office in the Department of Financial Services to oversee reporting of critical safety incidents.
Requires large developers of frontier AI models to adopt and publish safety protocols and to report safety incidents to the state.
Would have required consent before processing health information, given individuals access and deletion rights, and restricted sales of health data.
Requires prior consent before a deceased performer's digital replica is used in audiovisual works, sound recordings or live performances.
Requires advertisements to conspicuously disclose when they include an AI-generated synthetic performer, with civil penalties for violations.
Regulates AI companion models offered in New York and establishes a suicide prevention fund.
Requires businesses to disclose when a price for goods or services was set by an algorithm using the consumer's personal data.
Requires state agencies to apply meaningful human review to automated decision-making systems that affect benefits or individual rights, conduct impact assessments and disclose the systems they use.
Bars online operators from collecting, using or selling personal data of users under 18 unless strictly necessary or with informed consent.