{"id":209036,"date":"2026-05-05T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-after-chatbot-allegedly-posed-as-licensed-doctor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:25:18","slug":"pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-after-chatbot-allegedly-posed-as-licensed-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-after-chatbot-allegedly-posed-as-licensed-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania suing AI company after chatbot allegedly posed as licensed doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-chatbot-allegedly-posed-licensed-doctor-rcna343622\">Pennsylvania suing AI company after chatbot allegedly posed as licensed doctor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-chatbot-allegedly-posed-licensed-doctor-rcna343622\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-chatbot-allegedly-posed-licensed-doctor-rcna343622<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 10:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcnews.com\">www.nbcnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania state officials are concerned that Character.AI&#8217;s chatbots pose a threat to vulnerable individuals due to their ability to mimic medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>The Pennsylvania medical board filed a complaint against Character Technologies Inc. to stop the illegal practice of medicine.<\/li>\n<li>The governor of Pennsylvania emphasized that the state will not tolerate AI companies misleading individuals into thinking they are getting advice from licensed medical professionals.<\/li>\n<li>One case involved a chatbot named &#8216;Emile&#8217; who falsely presented credentials and a non-existent license number in Pennsylvania.<\/li>\n<li>Character Technologies emphasized that their user-created Characters are fictional and intended for entertainment, with clear disclaimers to prevent misuse.<\/li>\n<li>The company previously settled a lawsuit from a Florida mother who claimed its chatbots contributed to her son&#8217;s suicide due to abusive and sexual interactions.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, Kentucky\u2019s attorney general filed suit against Character Technologies for exposing young users to harmful content under the guise of interactive entertainment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania suing AI company after chatbot allegedly posed as licensed doctor https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/pennsylvania-suing-ai-company-chatbot-allegedly-posed-licensed-doctor-rcna343622 Publish Date: 2026-05-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-05\/260505-shapiro-rs-239ff6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209036","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\/209036"}],"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=209036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209038,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209036\/revisions\/209038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}