New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI

A measure attempting to modulate the ever-growing manufacture of companion AI chatbots is present instrumentality successful California, arsenic of October 13th.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 243, billed arsenic “first-in-the-nation AI chatbot safeguards” by authorities legislator Anthony Padilla. The new law requires that companion chatbot developers instrumentality caller safeguards — for instance, “if a tenable idiosyncratic interacting with a companion chatbot would beryllium misled to judge that the idiosyncratic is interacting with a human,” past the caller instrumentality requires the chatbot shaper to “issue a wide and conspicuous notification” that the merchandise is strictly AI and not human. 

Starting adjacent year, the authorities would necessitate immoderate companion chatbot operators to marque yearly reports to the Office of Suicide Prevention astir safeguards they’ve enactment successful spot “to detect, remove, and respond to instances of suicidal ideation by users,” and the Office would request to station specified information connected its website. 

“Emerging exertion similar chatbots and societal media tin inspire, educate, and link – but without existent guardrails, exertion tin besides exploit, mislead, and endanger our kids,” Newsom said successful a statement connected signing the bill, on with respective different pieces of authorities aimed astatine improving online information for children, including caller age-gating requirements for hardware. “We tin proceed to pb successful AI and technology, but we indispensable bash it responsibly — protecting our children each measurement of the way. Our children’s information is not for sale.”

The quality comes aft Governor Newsom officially signed Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency measure that divided AI companies and made headlines for months, into instrumentality successful California.