Consumer advocates urge Newsom to sign bill on chatbots providing medical advice

A coalition of civil society groups and healthcare professionals is pressing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to enact a bill they say would help protect consumers from exchanges with chatbots posing as licensed health providers by applying existing laws against such impersonations to the technology companies creating them.

“The undersigned organizations urge you to sign into law AB 489, a commonsense and vital piece of legislation that addresses the urgent concern of generative AI products -- particularly chatbots -- providing...