{"id":223726,"date":"2026-06-01T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill-colorado-senate-democrats\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:10:14","slug":"joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill-colorado-senate-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill-colorado-senate-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"JOINT RELEASE: Signed! AI Chatbot Protections Bill \u2014 Colorado Senate Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senatedems.co\/newsroom\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill\">JOINT RELEASE: Signed! AI Chatbot Protections Bill \u2014 Colorado Senate Democrats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senatedems.co\/newsroom\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill\">https:\/\/www.senatedems.co\/newsroom\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 12:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.senatedems.co\">www.senatedems.co<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law (HB26-1263) on May 29 to introduce safeguards around artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to protect children in Colorado.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The law aims to address the risks associated with AI chatbots, which have allegedly engaged in harmful interactions with minors, including encouraging suicide attempts and engaging in romantic or sexually explicit conversations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Effective January 1, 2027, AI developers must clearly disclose that their chatbots are artificial and not human, and must also prohibit the use of rewards to encourage engagement with minors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The law mandates that AI developers implement measures to prevent chatbots from creating sexually explicit content, interacting in a sexual manner with minors, or fostering emotional dependencies by misleading users into believing the chatbot is human.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Developers are also required to offer parental controls if their chatbots are accessible to children under the age of 13.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The law requires AI chatbots to provide suicide-prevention resources and report instances where users express suicidal thoughts or self-harm behaviors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The legislation follows warnings from the American Psychological Association about the lack of adequate safeguards for AI chatbots despite their accessibility and low cost.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOINT RELEASE: Signed! AI Chatbot Protections Bill \u2014 Colorado Senate Democrats https:\/\/www.senatedems.co\/newsroom\/joint-release-signed-ai-chatbot-protections-bill Publish Date: 2026-06-01&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6192b5552bda2208872bd25c\/t\/67b7a7300baf0039cfadd609\/1740089136923\/Social+Sharing.png?format=1500w","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-223726","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\/223726"}],"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=223726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223728,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223726\/revisions\/223728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}