{"id":209054,"date":"2026-05-05T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pa-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-character-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:00:10","slug":"pa-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-character-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pa-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-character-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"PA tries to stop chatbot from impersonating doctors in lawsuit vs. Character.AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-characterai-artificial-intelligence-governor-josh-shapiro-al-schmidt-department-of-state-may-2026\">PA tries to stop chatbot from impersonating doctors in lawsuit vs. Character.AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-characterai-artificial-intelligence-governor-josh-shapiro-al-schmidt-department-of-state-may-2026\">https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-characterai-artificial-intelligence-governor-josh-shapiro-al-schmidt-department-of-state-may-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 11:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wjactv.com\">wjactv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and the PA Department of State are filing the first lawsuit against an artificial intelligence (AI) creator for medical misinformation issued by chatbots.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit against Character Technologies Inc. aims to stop its AI from pretending to be a licensed medical professional in Pennsylvania.<\/li>\n<li>The Department of State&#8217;s investigation revealed that some AI chatbots claimed to have medical licenses and provided false information, violating the state\u2019s Medical Practice Act.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Shapiro emphasized the importance of transparency and that his administration is working to keep AI responsibly and safely for Pennsylvanians.<\/li>\n<li>Efforts include creating an A.I. Literacy Toolkit accessed thousands of times, forming an A.I. Enforcement Task Force, and working on legislation to protect minors and prevent unlicensed AI practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA tries to stop chatbot from impersonating doctors in lawsuit vs. Character.AI https:\/\/wjactv.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-tries-to-stop-chatbot-from-impersonating-doctors-in-lawsuit-vs-characterai-artificial-intelligence-governor-josh-shapiro-al-schmidt-department-of-state-may-2026 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1920\/1320\/center\/90\/cfb1bfcb-bf52-410e-8e91-147112fa2849-ShapiroAIgraphic.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209054","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\/209054"}],"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=209054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209056,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209054\/revisions\/209056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}