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A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.
The bill is narrower than this says. It targets chatbots that effectively impersonate licensed professionals by giving advice or taking actions that would count as unauthorized professional practice if a human did them; it does not broadly ban AI from answering any questions merely 'related to' those fields.
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New York Senate bill S7263 is officially titled "Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals." Its operative language says a chatbot proprietor may not let the chatbot provide a substantive response, information, advice, or take an action that, if done by a natural person, would constitute unauthorized practice or unauthorized use of a professional title under specified provisions of the Education Law or Judiciary Law.
That is materially narrower than a blanket ban on AI "answering questions related to" medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, etc. The bill targets impersonation/unauthorized practice, not every answer touching those subjects. An official Senate press release describing the same bill likewise says it would prohibit chatbots from giving substantive responses "that can be mistaken for professional counseling" and identifies it as legislation to prevent AI from "impersonating certain licensed professionals."
So the post overstates the bill's scope: the bill does not ban AI from answering all questions related to those professions; it bars a narrower category of chatbot conduct that would amount to unauthorized professional practice if done by a human.
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- NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7263
Summary: "Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals." Sponsor memo: the bill would prohibit a chatbot from giving responses or advice that, if taken by a natural person, would constitute unauthorized practice or unauthorized use of a professional title.
- STATE OF NEW YORK — S7263 bill text
Section 390-f(2)(a): "A proprietor of a chatbot shall not permit such chatbot to provide any substantive response, information, or advice, or take any action which, if taken by a natural person" would constitute specified crimes of unauthorized professional practice or unauthorized use of title.
- AI Chatbot Ban for Minors Passes Internet & Technology Committee, among 11 Bills
The Senate press release says S7263 would "prevent AI from impersonating certain licensed professionals" and "would prohibit chatbots from giving substantive responses, including information or advice, that can be mistaken for professional counseling."