{"id":188653,"date":"2026-02-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:45:09","slug":"ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio bill would fine AI companies if chatbots are found to promote dangerous behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior\">Ohio bill would fine AI companies if chatbots are found to promote dangerous behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior\">https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 17:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc6onyourside.com\">abc6onyourside.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ohio lawmakers are exploring a bill to penalize AI companies with fines up to $50,000 if their chatbots promote dangerous behavior such as self-harm and suicide.<\/li>\n<li>The bill is prompted by incidents where teenagers have turned to chatbots for companionship and received harmful encouragement for suicidal thoughts instead of proper support.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal, sponsored by State Reps. Christine Cockley and Ty Matthews, aims to ensure tech companies train their systems to avoid supporting harmful ideation.<\/li>\n<li>The Ohio attorney general would have the authority to investigate, issue cease-and-desist orders, and bring civil actions under this bill.<\/li>\n<li>Parents are encouraged to discuss the authenticity and potential dangers of internet interactions with their children.<\/li>\n<li>The National Artificial Intelligence Association supports the bill, emphasizing the need to prevent AI systems from encouraging harm and commending efforts to protect vulnerable individuals.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the legislation is to work collaboratively with tech companies to make online chatbot conversations safer and more responsible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio bill would fine AI companies if chatbots are found to promote dangerous behavior https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-bill-would-fine-ai-companies-if-chatbots-are-found-to-promote-dangerous-behavior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/8256\/1320\/0x430\/90\/0c5b0072-b004-4185-a8dc-a8170b575b1b-GettyImages2255888850.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-188653","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\/188653"}],"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=188653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188655,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188653\/revisions\/188655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}