{"id":177158,"date":"2026-01-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-to-protect-kids-and-data\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:25:16","slug":"central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-to-protect-kids-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-to-protect-kids-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida senator proposes AI bill to protect kids and data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-protect-kids\/69980259\">Central Florida senator proposes AI bill to protect kids and data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-protect-kids\/69980259\">https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-protect-kids\/69980259<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 18:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wesh.com\">www.wesh.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em>Florida is taking steps to establish new rules for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the state<\/em>. This initiative comes amid concerns from Governor Ron DeSantis about potential real-world risks, especially for children.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>State Senator Tom Leek has proposed the AI Bill of Rights (Senate Bill 482)<\/em>, aimed at safeguarding consumers, particularly children, from harmful or misleading AI uses. If passed, this legislation would take effect on July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Key provisions of the proposed bill (Senate Bill 482):<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>AI chatbots would be required to clearly disclose that they are not human.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Parents would be given more control over AI interactions with their children, including monitoring, restricting, or disabling AI accounts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Floridians would have the right to sue if AI misuses their name, image, or likeness without permission, including in advertisements or political content.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>Governor DeSantis has recently voiced warnings about the risks of rapid AI development, including the environmental and data infrastructure impacts.<\/em> He emphasized the need for ethical AI adoption that benefits society and does not displace human jobs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida senator proposes AI bill to protect kids and data https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/central-florida-senator-proposes-ai-bill-protect-kids\/69980259 Publish Date: 2026-01-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/vidthumb\/b6769228-73f8-4c96-86ad-749eb0bfe29a\/a9aeb293-1b8c-4aa3-b9c3-558143b8cc2f.jpg?crop=0.710xw:0.708xh;0.0684xw,0.0289xh&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177160,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177158\/revisions\/177160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}