How Google is drafting AI chatbot laws around the country
Google and other tech companies are actively participating in drafting state-level chatbot regulations, shaping the rules in ways that may carve out exemptions for their own products. As states move to set safety standards for AI chatbots, the companies most affected are helping write the legislation.
Why this matters: When a company helps write the law that governs its own products, the law tends to fit those products pretty well. That is the problem here. Safety rules with built-in exemptions are not really safety rules. They are market protection dressed up as consumer protection. The people who live in these states get regulations that look serious on paper but leave the biggest players mostly untouched. If you want to know why tech policy so often disappoints, this is a good place to start.
Who should care: Lawyers · Compliance · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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