New York's S7263—which would ban AI chatbots from answering medical, legal, and engineering questions—reached the Senate floor in February and a full chamber vote is imminent, even as studies show AI already outperforms 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 targeting the license plate camera network that police credit with solving 10% of reported crime nationwide. The fight over who controls AI—governments, corporations, or users—is 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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