{"id":1045900,"date":"2026-10-30T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045900"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:41:02","slug":"new-york-passes-law-restricting-childrens-use-of-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/new-york-passes-law-restricting-childrens-use-of-ai-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"New York passes law restricting children&#8217;s use of AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The governor of New York state signed a new law Wednesday preventing minors from using AI chatbots that act as companions, in one of the broadest moves yet for restricting consumer-facing models. <\/p>\n<p>The law requires chatbot operators, such as OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, to verify the ages of users and restrict the use of certain traits by the artificial intelligence interface if the user is under 18. <\/p>\n<p>If used by a minor, chatbots would not be able to produce any content that could leave its user to believe it &#8220;is human, alive, or experiences human emotions,&#8221; the law states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The governor of New York state signed a new law Wednesday preventing minors from using AI chatbots that act as companions, in one of the broadest moves yet for restricting consumer-facing models. The law requires chatbot operators, such as OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, to verify the ages of users and restrict the use of certain traits by the artificial intelligence interface if the user is under 18. If used by a minor, chatbots would not be able to produce any content that could leave its user to believe it &#8220;is human, alive, or experiences human emotions,&#8221; the law states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045917,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045900\/revisions\/1045917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}