{"id":189520,"date":"2026-02-21T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:00:13","slug":"bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill moving quickly to regulate how AI chatbots interact with minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/politics\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors-olympia-governer-bob-ferguson-democrats-republicans-washington-state-house-politics\">Bill moving quickly to regulate how AI chatbots interact with minors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/politics\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors-olympia-governer-bob-ferguson-democrats-republicans-washington-state-house-politics\">https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/politics\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors-olympia-governer-bob-ferguson-democrats-republicans-washington-state-house-politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-21 16:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"komonews.com\">komonews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Washington State is considering a bill to regulate AI interaction with minors, aiming to protect children from potential harm.<\/li>\n<li>House Bill 2225 mandates that users must be informed if they are interacting with an AI bot rather than a human, initially and then every three hours.<\/li>\n<li>Specifically for minors, this notification must occur at least once per hour.<\/li>\n<li>The bill instructs chatbot operators to use measures that prevent AI from generating explicit content, mimicking romantic relationships, or encouraging minors to withhold information.<\/li>\n<li>The bill has garnered broad bipartisan support but sparked concerns over the potential for businesses to collect excessive information about minors.<\/li>\n<li>It has passed the House and the Senate committee, nearing approval by Governor Bob Ferguson, who supports the legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Proponents argue the bill is critical to protecting children from sexual abuse and harmful content.<\/li>\n<li>Despite support, some lawmakers fear the legislation may unjustifiably expose minors&#8217; profiles to be studied and potentially misused.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill moving quickly to regulate how AI chatbots interact with minors https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/politics\/bill-moving-quickly-to-regulate-how-ai-chatbots-interact-with-minors-olympia-governer-bob-ferguson-democrats-republicans-washington-state-house-politics Publish Date: 2026-02-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/komonews.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1280\/1320\/center\/90\/52880caa-9247-4935-a3ca-95b47008b32f-65540ef94b7144f2928e455b27d441c8.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189520","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\/189520"}],"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=189520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189522,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520\/revisions\/189522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}