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Governor signs about 22 bipartisan bills covering AI disclosures, student safety and tenant protections
Summary
At a public ceremony in Olympia the governor signed roughly 22 bills into law on topics ranging from AI disclosure and chatbot safeguards for minors to limits on school restraints, new school-construction financing tools, tenant cooling protections and changes to energy and labor rules.
In Olympia, the governor signed about 22 bills into law at a public ceremony that highlighted measures on artificial intelligence, student safety, housing and consumer protections.
The most prominent bills address AI and youth safety. The governor described House Bill 1170 as requiring major AI companies to embed data that identifies when images, video or audio are created or edited by artificial intelligence so “Washingtonians know what is human made and what is machine generated.” He said this transparency will help protect people from confusion and misinformation. The governor also described House Bill 2225, legislation he requested, which requires AI companion chatbots to detect and respond when users express suicidal thoughts and to refer them to crisis resources; it also requires filters to limit sexually explicit content for minors and bans manipulative engagement techniques with minors.
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