The popularity of AI-driven companion chatbots is skyrocketing, especially among American teenagers and young adults.
This guide is meant to inform lawmakers, industry leaders, developers, and thought leaders as they consider the best ways to safely and properly govern these powerful new AI products.
This week: Multiple AI-related proposals in California continued to move through the legislature ahead of the scheduled July 19-August 17 recess in Sacramento.
”AI companies are training their models on stolen material, period,” said Hawley. “We’re not talking about these companies simply scouring the internet for what’s publicly available. We’re talking about piracy.”
“No generation has ever had such quick access to the amount of information now available through AI,” said Pope Leo XIV. “But again, access to data — however extensive — must not be confused with intelligence.”
Microsoft is now embedding its Copilot AI system in every version of Word. The AI model will ingest and remember every word you type, unless you disable it.
