{"id":181535,"date":"2026-01-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-to-prohibit-ai-from-reaching-personhood-status\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:00:00","slug":"oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-to-prohibit-ai-from-reaching-personhood-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-to-prohibit-ai-from-reaching-personhood-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma lawmaker proposes bill to prohibit AI from reaching personhood status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiowacountypress.net\/content\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-prohibit-ai-reaching-personhood-status\">Oklahoma lawmaker proposes bill to prohibit AI from reaching personhood status<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiowacountypress.net\/content\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-prohibit-ai-reaching-personhood-status\">https:\/\/kiowacountypress.net\/content\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-prohibit-ai-reaching-personhood-status<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-25 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"kiowacountypress.net\">kiowacountypress.net<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oklahoma Representative Cody Maynard has proposed legislation to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) from being granted personhood status, similar to House Bill 3546.<\/li>\n<li>The lawmaker aims to prevent companies from shifting legal blame for accidents onto AI systems, such as self-driving cars.<\/li>\n<li>Maynard expressed concern about minors interacting with AI chatbots, fearing that they can lead to suicide or self-harm.<\/li>\n<li>Similar legislation has been proposed or passed in several other states, including Idaho, Utah, Washington, South Carolina, and Missouri.<\/li>\n<li>Maynard is also considering regulations specifically addressing how AI chatbots interact with minors.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation may also hold companies liable if AI plagiarizes or misuses copyrighted material.<\/li>\n<li>Maynard believes that while these initial steps are necessary, determining &#8220;realistic and reasonable&#8221; safeguards will require ongoing dialogue and collaboration among lawmakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma lawmaker proposes bill to prohibit AI from reaching personhood status https:\/\/kiowacountypress.net\/content\/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bill-prohibit-ai-reaching-personhood-status Publish Date: 2026-01-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-181535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535"}],"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=181535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}