Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act; established, prohibited practices, penalties.
Introduced: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Introduced
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +3
- Latest action
- Jul 21
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What it does
Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act established; prohibited practices; penalties. Creates the Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Act, which prohibits an operator from making a companion chatbot, as those terms are defined in the bill, available to a user in the Commonwealth unless the companion chatbot is incapable of certain actions specified in the bill. The bill also requires an operator of a companion chatbot to include a disclaimer to users of all ages that a companion chatbot is not a human via a static, persistent disclosure and notify a user via a pop-up that he is not engaging with a human counterpart at specified intervals. The bill makes it unlawful for any operator of a companion…
What moved
Who is involved
- Michelle MaldonadoLead sponsor
- Bonita AnthonyCo-sponsor
- Cliff HayesCo-sponsor
- Irene ShinCo-sponsor
- J.R. HensonCo-sponsor
- Jackie GlassCo-sponsor
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Michelle Maldonado
- Bonita Anthony
- Cliff Hayes
- Irene Shin
- J.R. Henson
- Jackie Glass
- Margaret A. Franklin
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