California’s first step toward Artificial Integrity: SB 243 to protect human agency from AI
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California’s Senate Bill 243 (SB 243) is the nation’s first law to specifically and explicitly mandate concrete steps for cognitive sovereignty in AI chatbots effectively pioneering a legal framework for the operational enforcement of integrity behavior in AI design.
It recognizes something most AI policy has ignored until now: the emotional, relational, social and psychological dimensions of human–machine interaction are not accidental side-effects, they are the AI product.
By requiring AI companions to disclose that they are not human, by obliging them to intervene and redirect toward real crisis support in situations of self-harm, by limiting certain forms of sexualized interaction with minors, and by forcing providers to document and publish their crisis-response protocols, California is doing more than just asking for “safety features”.
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