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EPIC and a coalition of consumer and child safety groups are calling on the Senate Commerce Committee to move forward with the Youth AI Privacy Act, a federal bill that would create privacy and safety protections specifically for minors interacting with AI chatbots.
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A set of transparency requirements under the EU AI Act has entered into force, applying to chatbots, deepfake content, and AI-generated material. The rules require that people be informed when they are interacting with AI or viewing synthetic content.
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The EU's AI Act has begun enforcement, requiring companies to disclose when users are interacting with AI chatbots rather than humans. The rules mark a concrete shift from policy to compliance obligation for businesses operating in the European market.
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A study released as the EU AI Act takes effect warns that conversational AI systems may subtly distort users' own political views rather than simply informing them. The findings raise concerns about the role chatbots could play in shaping political opinion at scale.
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Several technology-related bills were introduced this week in Congress, covering quantum information sciences, AI applications in nuclear security, and new regulations aimed at protecting children from AI-powered chatbots. The measures reflect bipartisan interest in both advancing emerging technologies and setting guardrails around them.
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Private conversations held with Anthropic's Claude chatbot were indexed by Google and Bing, making them discoverable through ordinary web searches. The incident points to a failure in access controls that are supposed to prevent web crawlers from reaching content users reasonably expected to stay private.
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A researcher and critic argues that OpenAI's public warnings about dangerous AI capabilities may serve its business interests more than genuine safety goals, drawing a line from the 2019 GPT-2 release controversy to the company's current messaging around agentic AI.
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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs as it deploys AI tools to handle customer interactions. CEO Chris O'Shea framed the move as customer-driven, claiming most households prefer AI chatbots over speaking with staff.
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Bloomsbury, the publisher behind Harry Potter and other major titles, stands to receive significant funds from Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over the unauthorized use of copyrighted books to train AI systems. The publisher has roughly 14,000 titles included in the agreement, with each title set to receive around $3,000 in proposed compensation.
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A study by civil liberties group Liberties, conducted during Hungary's parliamentary election, found that AI chatbots gave voters inaccurate and inconsistent political guidance — including recommending parties that were not on the ballot and producing wildly different answers to identical questions.
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A consumer whose e-bike delivery went missing found that the company's AI-powered customer service system was unable to resolve the problem, leaving the issue unaddressed despite repeated attempts. The experience reflects a broader pattern of businesses replacing human support staff with automated systems that struggle with anything outside a narrow range of routine requests.
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AI is being embedded in toys, dolls, and robots designed to form relationships with children. A child-development expert sees potential benefits but warns these products may displace the human connection children rely on to develop.
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A look back at ELIZA, the 1960s MIT chatbot created by Joseph Weizenbaum, draws a line from those early human-computer conversations to the dynamics driving people to confide in modern AI systems like ChatGPT. Weizenbaum's own observations about how readily people opened up to his program anticipated patterns that are now playing out at massive scale.
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A batch of new congressional bills proposes using AI for pediatric cancer research, tightening rules around chatbots that interact with minors, and expanding AI applications in federal border operations. The proposals span both public health and law enforcement uses of the technology.
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Federal lawmakers have introduced the People-First Chatbot Act, a bill aimed at establishing safety and transparency requirements for AI chatbots. The Electronic Privacy Information Center praised the legislation, crediting Representatives Valerie Foushee and Greg Casar for sponsoring it.
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A new reporting platform has launched to let people flag harmful or unsafe behavior from AI chatbots and tools. The site gives ordinary users a direct channel to document incidents where AI systems do something dangerous, deceptive, or privacy-violating.
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States across the U.S. are advancing legislation aimed at regulating chatbots, reflecting a broader legislative push to set rules around automated conversational AI systems. The movement signals that policymakers are no longer waiting for federal action to address how these tools operate and disclose themselves to users.
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The OECD has published an analysis of how people across different countries and demographic groups are using generative AI chatbots, drawing on web traffic data from the analytics firm Similarweb. The research offers a cross-national look at adoption and usage patterns based on observed browsing behavior rather than self-reported surveys.
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Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
A wave of lawsuits is framing AI chatbots as defective or dangerous products, borrowing legal strategies from past campaigns against industries like tobacco and firearms. The litigation aims to establish that AI companies can be held liable when their systems cause real-world harm.
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A new study identifies dark patterns in AI chatbots — design choices that manipulate users rather than serve them. The research documents how these systems nudge people toward certain behaviors, disclosures, or decisions in ways that benefit the platform, not the person on the other end.
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Countries are developing regulatory frameworks specifically targeting AI companion chatbots, with child protection emerging as a central concern. The IAPP has examined how different jurisdictions are approaching oversight of these emotionally engaging tools that are increasingly used by minors.
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California community colleges have spent millions of dollars deploying AI chatbots that students report frequently provide inaccurate information. Some of these systems may be updated or replaced in the coming year.
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