{"id":2445,"date":"2025-10-13T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:08:54","slug":"new-california-law-hopes-to-stop-ai-assisted-suicide-among-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/new-california-law-hopes-to-stop-ai-assisted-suicide-among-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"New California law hopes to stop AI-assisted suicide among teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-california-law-hopes-to-stop-ai-assisted-suicide-among-t_e7y7.640.jpg\">Teen AI chatbot use has ended in tragedy. One state aims to improve safety.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech\/61075\/after-losing-their-son-parents-urge-senate-to-take-action-on-ai-chatbots\">sustained outcry<\/a> from child safety advocates, families, and politicians, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill designed to curb AI <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/mental-health\/55311\/ai-companions-unsafe-for-teens-under-18-researchers-say\">chatbot behavior that experts say is unsafe or dangerous<\/a>, particularly for teens. <\/p>\n<p>The law, <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB243\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known as SB 243<\/a>, requires chatbot operators prevent \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen AI chatbot use has ended in tragedy. One state aims to improve safety. After sustained outcry from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}