{"id":203679,"date":"2026-04-09T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:30:13","slug":"washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington and Oregon Regulate AI Companions: Key Compliance Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/pubs\/2026\/04\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes\">Washington and Oregon Regulate AI Companions: Key Compliance Changes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/pubs\/2026\/04\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes\">https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/pubs\/2026\/04\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-09 17:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.morganlewis.com\">www.morganlewis.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington and Oregon have enacted detailed laws to regulate consumer-facing interactive AI companions, imposing stringent compliance requirements on operators.<\/li>\n<li>Both states require clear disclosures about the nature of AI interactions, crisis detection protocols, and specific safeguards for minors, along with public reporting obligations.<\/li>\n<li>The laws establish private rights of action, notably with Oregon allowing statutory damages of $1,000 per violation, increasing litigation risk significantly.<\/li>\n<li>Companies need to review and update their AI systems to ensure compliance ahead of the January 1, 2027 effective date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington and Oregon Regulate AI Companions: Key Compliance Changes https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/pubs\/2026\/04\/washington-and-oregon-regulate-ai-companions-key-compliance-changes Publish Date: 2026-04-09 17:20:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.morganlewis.com\/-\/media\/images\/tiles\/technology\/202585_sv_ai_boot-camp_tile_largetile.jpg?rev=8619a6d25601456c96b0d39c070598d3&hash=0316BA9A49E37FCD50D6587547D0BFB6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203679","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\/203679"}],"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=203679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203681,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203679\/revisions\/203681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}