With tech companies unwilling to heed calls for safety testing and responsible product design, state legislators have stepped up to set baseline standards. We have all the new chatbot laws listed state by state.

This week: Massachusetts lawmakers moved forward with bills that would protect kids from addictive social media algorithms and enact a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools. In Hawaii, Gov. Josh Green signed two AI bills into law, and Gov. Pritzker did the same in Illinois.

Massachusetts lawmakers are moving two bills concerning kids, addictive algorithms, and the use of digital devices at school.