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IL House Passes ‘Junk Fee’ Bill The Illinois House passed a bill ( HB 228 ) that would amend the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to prohibit businesses from...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of...
CT Lawmakers Target AI in Employment A bill (SB 435) before Connecticut’s legislature would require employers to disclose to job applicants when they are communicating with artificial intelligence...
On March 11, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed HB 2303 . The law, which takes effect June 11, bars employers from requesting, requiring or coercing workers or job applicants to accept a subcutaneous...
ND Regulators Approve Bank-to-Bank Stablecoin Use North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the use of the state bank’s planned stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, for bank-to-bank transactions...
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New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D) is drafting a bill that would make developers of AI companion chatbots liable for harm those chatbots cause to minors. The first-in-the-nation proposal comes after a 14-year-old chatbot user took his own life. Similar legislation could also come this year in California. (PLURIBUS NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Indiana’s Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill (SB 11) that would prohibit social media companies from allowing those under the age of 16 from accessing their platforms without parental consent. Before approving the measure, the committee removed a provision that would have allowed parents or guardians to sue for violations. The approved version would still permit the state’s AG to sue after giving social media operators 90 days to correct violations. (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE)
The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill (AB 4664) in December that would prohibit social media platforms from using “a design, algorithm, practice, affordance, or feature” that they know or “by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, could cause child users to develop an eating disorder, including, but not limited to, promoting diet products.” Platforms that violate the measure’s provisions would be subject to fines of up to $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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