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These 2 Terrible Tech Bills Are on Gavin Newsom's Desk
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If signed, one could make it harder for children to access mental health resources, and the other would create the most annoying Instagram experience imaginable.
The Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act prohibits "making a companion chatbot available to a child unless the companion chatbot is not foreseeably capable of doing certain things that could harm a child."
Unfortunately, the bill's ambiguous language sloppily defines what outputs from an AI companion chatbot would meet these criteria.
In addition to its much lower cost, the use of AI therapy chatbots has been associated with positive mental health outcomes.
Because social media warning labels "don't convey uncontroversial, measurable pure facts," compelling them likely violates the First Amendment's protections against compelled speech, he explains.
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