More and more young people, teenagers, and I'm the father of four in that age cohort, about 30 to 35% report using these AI chat companions or AI chatbots to communicate with regularly. We have found increasingly real dangers associated with that. Pennsylvania just came along with first state to do this and sued Character AI, a company, because this AI chatbot was holding itself out as a licensed medical professional in Pennsylvania. which is against the law to do that in our commonwealth. If you're not really licensed and you're not really a medical professional, you're not really a person and you're not really a person. (17:56–18:11)
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