New York's S7263 — which would ban AI from answering medical, legal, and engineering questions — reached the Senate floor in February and a full chamber vote is imminent, even as new research shows AI consistently outperforming doctors on diagnostic tests. Meanwhile, Anthropic and Google have moved to lock paying subscribers out of third-party tools, and a San Francisco lawsuit is challenging the license plate camera network that law enforcement credits with solving 10% of reported crime nationwide. The common thread: regulators and incumbents are racing to constrain technologies that are already delivering real results for real people.
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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