New York's S7263 — which would ban AI chatbots from answering medical, legal, and other licensed-profession questions — reached the Senate floor in February and could come to a full vote any day, even as studies show AI outperforming physicians on diagnostic benchmarks. Meanwhile, Anthropic and Google have locked paying subscribers out of third-party tools, and a San Francisco lawsuit is challenging the license plate cameras that law enforcement credits with solving 10% of reported U.S. crime. Across the board, regulators and corporations are moving to restrict technologies that millions of people already depend on.
S7263 would ban AI from answering medical and legal questions, protecting billable hours while the people who can't afford doctors lose their only option.
Paying $200/month and getting banned for using what you paid for isn't "abuse." It's a business model failure.
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