Law / United States / 
New York
Artificial Intelligence Companion Models safeguards
N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law art. 47 (§§ 1700-1704)
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In force 11 months, effective 7 November 2025.
An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Give users a clear and conspicuous notification, at the start of an AI companion interaction and at least every three hours of continued use, that they are not communicating with a human.
- Implement a protocol to detect a user's expressions of suicidal ideation or self-harm and refer them to appropriate crisis services such as the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Civil penalty of up to $15,000 per day for a violation of the self-harm detection duty (section 1701) or the notification duty (section 1702), sought by the Attorney General.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Day
- Per violation amount
- 15,000
Over one month of continuous breach, USD 456,600.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
New York Attorney General
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 1701 requires an AI companion to contain a protocol for detecting and addressing a user's expressions of suicidal ideation or self-harm, and section 1702 requires a recurring notification that the user is not communicating with a human. Neither section requires the operator to create, keep, or produce a log or record of a detection, a notification, or an individual interaction.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 21 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
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An operator of an AI companion, a system using artificial intelligence, generative AI or emotional-recognition algorithms to simulate a sustained human-like relationship with a user, must provide a clear and conspicuous notification at the start of an interaction and at least every three hours that the user is not communicating with a human, and must implement a protocol reasonably designed to detect and respond to a user's expressions of suicidal ideation or self-harm by referring them to crisis services such as the 9-8-8 hotline.
The Attorney General may enjoin a violation and seek civil penalties of up to $15,000 per day per violation of the notification or self-harm-detection duties. The article defines the operator bound by these duties as any person, partnership, association, firm or business entity that operates for or provides an AI companion to a user.
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