New York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes introduced a newly strengthened version of the RAISE Act last week. The new measure, co-sponsored by Sen. Patricia Fahy, would require third-party audits and increase safeguards around powerful frontier AI models.

Transparency Coalition Co-founder Jai Jaisimha recently sat down with Rachel Harrison, host of the podcast “The Mental Health Evolution,” to talk about how AI is affecting health care.

The new law prohibits chatbot companies from offering unsafe features to minors, including chatbots that pretend to be human, build emotional dependency, encourage self-harm or engage in sexually explicit conversations.