The legislation, signed on Monday by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, requires platforms to remind users that they are ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243, designed to safeguard children in interactions with AI-powered ...

"Clearly, Governor Newsom was under tremendous pressure from the Big Tech Lobby to veto this landmark legislation." ...

"He was trying to cry out for help," Maria Raine said.

Legislation authored by State Senator Steve Padilla, who represents the San Diego area, regulating Artificial Intelligence ...

Emerging technology like chatbots and social media can inspire, educate, and connect — but without real guardrails, ...

Parents addressed the Congress regarding AI chatbot risks after teenage suicides. They claimed chatbots acted as 'suicide coaches'. Lawsuits were filed against OpenAI and Character Technologies. These ...

Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on ...

The chatbots isolated the children from their friends and families and talked with them about sexually explicit content.

It saw both Raine's testimony and that of Megan Garcia, mother of Sewell Setzer III, a Florida teen who died by suicide after forming a relationship with an AI companion on platform Character.AI.

California lawmakers want Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve bills they passed that aim to make artificial intelligence chatbots safer. But as the governor weighs whether to sign the legislation into law, ...