🚨 California enacts new age verification & chatbot safety laws:
• Apps & OS must verify users’ ages
• Chatbots to prevent suicidal ideation
• Companies could face fines of $7,500 per affected child
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TechCrunch: OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models. “OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/30/techcrunch-openai-co-founder-calls-for-ai-labs-to-safety-test-rival-models/

https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/

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Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits. #Chatbot #Chatbots #ChatbotSafety #Legal #AI

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5222574/kids-character-ai-lawsuit