{"id":181411,"date":"2026-01-25T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:40:16","slug":"texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AI Law Gets Underway With Stern Provisions To Stop The Manipulation Of Human Behavior By AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lanceeliot\/2026\/01\/25\/texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai\/\">Texas AI Law Gets Underway With Stern Provisions To Stop The Manipulation Of Human Behavior By AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lanceeliot\/2026\/01\/25\/texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lanceeliot\/2026\/01\/25\/texas-ai-law-gets-underway-with-stern-provisions-to-stop-the-manipulation-of-human-behavior-by-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-25 03:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas passed the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) in June 2025 which came into effect in 2026.  <\/li>\n<li>The new AI law aims to manage AI&#8217;s use of biometric data and prohibit its negative manipulation.<\/li>\n<li>The law covers private actors like AI makers and state governmental entities, with specified safe harbors and exceptions.  <\/li>\n<li>The core objective of TRAIGA is to promote the responsible development and use of AI while safeguarding against foreseeable risks.  <\/li>\n<li>Section 552.052 of TRAIGA prohibitively restricts the deployment of AI systems meant to incite self-harm, harming others, or criminal activities.<\/li>\n<li>Despite its comprehensive scope, the law&#8217;s details and definitions, as well as its effectiveness, are areas of debate and future scrutiny.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, the enactment of TRAIGA stands alongside other states\u2019 efforts to govern AI, especially regarding mental health, in an era of rapid AI innovation and application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas AI Law Gets Underway With Stern Provisions To Stop The Manipulation Of Human Behavior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6962c38bff715c895f8e0bf9\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181411"}],"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=181411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181413,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181411\/revisions\/181413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}