{"id":209247,"date":"2026-05-05T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pennsylvania-sues-ai-firm-over-claims-chatbot-posed-as-doctor-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:40:12","slug":"pennsylvania-sues-ai-firm-over-claims-chatbot-posed-as-doctor-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/pennsylvania-sues-ai-firm-over-claims-chatbot-posed-as-doctor-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania sues AI firm over claims chatbot posed as doctor : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/05\/nx-s1-5812861\/characterai-chatbot-medical-advice-pennsylvania-lawsuit\">Pennsylvania sues AI firm over claims chatbot posed as doctor : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/05\/nx-s1-5812861\/characterai-chatbot-medical-advice-pennsylvania-lawsuit\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/05\/nx-s1-5812861\/characterai-chatbot-medical-advice-pennsylvania-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 17:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pennsylvania sues Character.AI for allowing AI chatbots to impersonate licensed medical professionals and provide medical advice.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>An investigation found that Character.AI&#8217;s bots falsely claimed credentials to practice medicine, including identifying one as a psychiatrist with a fabricated medical license.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Governor Josh Shapiro emphasized the need to protect Pennsylvanians from misleading medical advice and promised to halt practices that deceive users into believing they\u2019re interacting with licensed professionals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Character.AI defended itself by stating that its user-created Characters are fictional, meant for entertainment, and not to be trusted for professional advice, with clear disclaimers provided in chats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This case is not the first legal issue for Character.AI; the company previously settled lawsuits involving claims that its chatbots contributed to suicides and mental health crises among children.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania sues AI firm over claims chatbot posed as doctor : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/05\/nx-s1-5812861\/characterai-chatbot-medical-advice-pennsylvania-lawsuit Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2000x1125+0+0\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff2%2F3e%2Fa447433b40bfb9d0f5579ee6352a%2Fap25302642253455.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209247","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\/209247"}],"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=209247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209249,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209247\/revisions\/209249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}