California passes 26 laws on SI and social media: from a ban on SI therapists to "human instructors only"
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The state where the whole SI industry lives is trying to restrict SI in schools, medicine and the workplace all at once, and some of these bans may lock useful tools behind a legislative fence before they can be tested.
In the final week of the session, state legislators passed a package: a ban on "addictive" features such as autoplay for teens under 16, age verification and platform liability for child safety in SI chatbots, a requirement that California State University instructors be humans, a ban on SI monitoring of employees' emotions through "neural data", and a restriction of therapy to licensed professionals. Governor Newsom must decide which laws to sign by the end of September; Sam Altman, according to NBC, personally voiced objections to him.
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