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Kansas AG backs bill to ban AI training that impersonates humans or provides clinical advice
Summary
Attorney General Chris Kobach urged the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee to pass SB405, which would ban knowingly training AI to simulate humans, provide clinical advice, encourage self-harm, or perform other listed harms; the bill creates state and private civil remedies and penalties including fines up to $50,000 per violation.
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 405 on Feb. 20, a proposal that would make it unlawful to knowingly train artificial intelligence to perform certain human-like or therapeutic roles.
Jason, committee staff, described the bill as defining artificial intelligence broadly to include chatbots while carving out exceptions for customer-service bots, limited video-game companions and standalone consumer speaker devices. The bill lists eight prohibited behaviors, including encouraging suicide, providing emotional-support or mental-health treatment that would otherwise be delivered by a licensed professional, simulating a human being (appearance or voice), and promoting social isolation. The measure would authorize the Kansas attorney general to bring civil enforcement…
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