{"id":183295,"date":"2026-01-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law-the-markup\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:40:26","slug":"mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law-the-markup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law-the-markup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law \u2013 The Markup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/30\/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law\">Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law \u2013 The Markup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/30\/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law\">https:\/\/themarkup.org\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/01\/30\/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"themarkup.org\">themarkup.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s New York City administration plans to shut down a previously deployed AI chatbot developed by the previous administration due to its high operational costs and the discovery that it provided harmful legal advice to businesses.<\/li>\n<li>The bot, costing approximately $500,000, included erroneous suggestions such as allowing landlords to discriminate against tenants based on their income source, and advising businesses to take a portion of employees&#8217; 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