New York's S7263 — which would ban AI from answering medical, legal, and other licensed-profession questions — has reached the Senate floor and faces an imminent full chamber vote, even as studies show AI outperforming doctors on diagnostic benchmarks. Meanwhile, Anthropic and Google have locked paying subscribers out of third-party tools, and a San Francisco lawsuit seeks to shut down the license plate technology credited with solving 10% of reported U.S. crime. The battles over what AI and tech can do — and who controls it — are no longer theoretical.
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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