Law / United States / 
New Jersey
AI companion operators must tell users they are not communicating with a human (A4732)
N.J. A4732 (2026-2027), supplementing Title 56 of the Revised Statutes
An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
As of .
What it requires
- Proposed, not law: if A4732 is enacted as introduced, give each user of your AI companion within the State a clear and conspicuous notification, verbally or in writing, at the beginning of any interaction that the user is not communicating with a human.
- If A4732 is enacted as introduced, repeat that notification at least every three hours for continued AI companion interactions.
- An AI companion under the bill is a system using generative artificial intelligence designed to simulate a sustained human or human-like relationship by retaining information from prior interactions or user preferences, asking unprompted emotion-based questions and sustaining an ongoing dialogue concerning matters personal to the user.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
An operator that violates the bill would be subject to a civil penalty of $15,000 for each violation, collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under the Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 15,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The bill requires a notification to the user at the start of an interaction and every three hours, and states no duty to keep a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
This bill would require an operator of an artificial intelligence companion to give a user clear and conspicuous notification at the beginning of any AI companion interaction that the user is not communicating with a human, verbally or in writing, and to repeat it at least every three hours for continued interactions.
An AI companion is a system using generative artificial intelligence designed to simulate a sustained human or human-like relationship with a user by retaining information from prior interactions or user preferences, asking unprompted emotion-based questions and sustaining an ongoing dialogue concerning matters personal to the user.
An operator that violates it would be subject to a civil penalty of $15,000 for each violation, collected in a civil action by a summary proceeding under the Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999. The bill states that it would take effect immediately. It was introduced on and referred to the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
That committee reported it on and referred it to the Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee, which reported it on and referred it to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Its primary sponsors are Assembly members Marisa Sweeney, David Bailey and Linda Carter. Senate Bill S4758 is identical.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app deploys a chatbot or generates content with AI.