Feed: Slashdot
Feed Link: https://slashdot.org/
---

Title: California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social
Media, AI Chatbots

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/06152...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: California
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at
protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and
AI chatbots. The laws will penalize large social media companies up to $1
million per child if they are found negligent of harming children through
their platforms, ban tech businesses from offering addictive feeds to anyone
under 16, require operators of AI chatbots to perform risk assessments before
rolling them out and allow families to opt out of receiving school-issued
laptops. Newsom joined his wife and state lawmakers at a children's museum
near San Francisco to stress the importance of protecting kids at a time when
they have such easy access to social media and AI chatbots. "We have designed
cribs to be safe, chairs to be safe, car seats," Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-
Kahan said. "Yet we've allowed technology to be handed to our children and
never asked or expected it to be safe." [...] Newsom also signed laws
Wednesday, which are supported by Anthropic, that are aimed at improving
oversight of AI companies. One of the measures requires the state to create
rules for independent organizations to evaluate the safety risks of AI
models, and the other requires the state to create a registry of AI auditors,
who'd have to be financially independent from the businesses they are
auditing.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

---
VRSS v2.1.180528