{"id":186141,"date":"2026-02-10T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-elderly\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:35:09","slug":"gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand urges FTC to examine impacts of AI on elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-older-americans\">Gillibrand urges FTC to examine impacts of AI on elderly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-older-americans\">https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-older-americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 13:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"spectrumlocalnews.com\">spectrumlocalnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. Rick Scott are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on older Americans and individuals with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The senators, Gillibrand as the top Democrat on the Senate Aging Committee and Scott as the committee chairman, sent a joint letter to the FTC to examine the risks seniors face when using AI chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>They requested a briefing on the FTC\u2019s existing inquiry into generative AI companions and called for the inquiry to extend to older adults and those with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Gillibrand highlighted the safety and risk concerns stemming from the rapid integration of AI into everyday technologies, particularly noting that older Americans face heightened risks when using AI chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>The senators expressed concerns about the potential for AI to facilitate increased fraud and scams targeting seniors.<\/li>\n<li>They referenced a 2025 investigation by Reuters and Harvard University which exposed how AI-enabled chatbots can be easily manipulated to create convincing phishing emails despite safety measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillibrand urges FTC to examine impacts of AI on elderly https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/02\/10\/gillibrand-urges-ftc-to-examine-impacts-of-ai-on-older-americans Publish Date: 2026-02-10 13:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s7d2.scene7.com\/is\/image\/TWCNews\/ap-kirsten-gillibrand-5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-186141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186141"}],"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=186141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186143,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186141\/revisions\/186143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}