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New York signs restrictions on unsafe AI companion features for minors

An October 30 Senate announcement reports enactment of restrictions on deceptive companionship, harmful sycophancy and self-harm encouragement in AI chatbots offered to minors. It describes user civil actions and attorney-general enforcement, with customer-service and internal-use exceptions. The sponsor says the chaptered version takes effect June 1, 2027; protection is not yet in force.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM42confidence 60/100

Why it moved the index

The law creates an enforcement route against AI-driven emotional manipulation and dangerous dependence among minors. Magnitude 42 reflects binding state-level obligations with defined exceptions; confidence 60 caps the inferred protective effect because implementation is future-effective and no harm reduction has been measured.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 42 · confidence 60

    Adds a completed enactment, corroborated by the bill action log; uses the announcement publication date and labels the sponsor-reported delayed effective date.

    01 Nov 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “New York signs restrictions on unsafe AI companion features for minors” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 42 and confidence 60 out of 100 in the governance and control category.

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