{"id":190442,"date":"2026-02-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-chatbots-operating-in-colorado-would-have-to-take-steps-to-protect-kids-prevent-suicides-under-bipartisan-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:55:09","slug":"ai-chatbots-operating-in-colorado-would-have-to-take-steps-to-protect-kids-prevent-suicides-under-bipartisan-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-chatbots-operating-in-colorado-would-have-to-take-steps-to-protect-kids-prevent-suicides-under-bipartisan-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots operating in Colorado would have to take steps to protect kids, prevent suicides under bipartisan bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2026\/02\/25\/colorado-chatgpt-chatbot-regulations\/\">AI chatbots operating in Colorado would have to take steps to protect kids, prevent suicides under bipartisan bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2026\/02\/25\/colorado-chatgpt-chatbot-regulations\/\">https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2026\/02\/25\/colorado-chatgpt-chatbot-regulations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"coloradosun.com\">coloradosun.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the key points from the article using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bipartisan Bill<\/strong>: A new bill, House Bill 1263, has been introduced in Colorado to regulate AI chatbots to protect children and prevent suicide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Motivation<\/strong>: The bill was introduced in response to concerns from constituents, including reports that children were &#8220;sexually groomed&#8221; by chatbots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disclosure Requirements<\/strong>: Companies operating AI chatbots in Colorado would have to notify children that they are interacting with an AI, not a real person.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content Restrictions<\/strong>: The legislation aims to prevent AI chatbots from producing sexually explicit content or generating statements that could stimulate emotional dependence in children.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parental Controls<\/strong>: The bill would require companies to offer parental controls for their chatbots accessible to kids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suicide Prevention<\/strong>: AI chatbots would be required to provide suicide prevention resources to users expressing thoughts of suicide and to report such cases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Opposition Yet<\/strong>: No registered opposition to the bill has emerged, and tech companies have not publicly commented on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>State Regulation Balance<\/strong>: The bill seeks a balance between protecting users in Colorado and not stifling technological innovation nationally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Next Steps<\/strong>: The bill has been assigned to the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee, but its first hearing has not yet been scheduled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI chatbots operating in Colorado would have to take steps to protect kids, prevent suicides&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newspack-coloradosun.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tamale_presser_jp-12-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&quality=85&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190442","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\/190442"}],"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=190442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190444,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190442\/revisions\/190444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}