[phishin]

Lawyers protecting lawyers. The one thing AI could help the ordinary people fight back against corporations.

[bklosky]

Rent seeking via occupational licensing, there is nothing new under the sun

[terminalshort]

That's a lot of words to say "cartel"

[Esophagus4]

A cartel of lawyers would be like… the most boring cartel

[capital_guy]

The person that introduced this bill is not a lawyer. A former tech worker, actually.

[bigbadfeline]

>> OP: New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice

Isn't software engineering "engineering" too? Why split hairs, prohibit all or nothing. Of course it's not about logic or safety, it's about social engineering.

[tzs]

> Isn't software engineering "engineering" too?

No.

FTA:>> Important nuance: "engineering" here means New York Education Law Article 145 professions (professional engineering, land surveying, and geology), not software engineering.

What the law is basically saying is that in fields where it would by a crime for a random human to give any substantive response, information, or advice chatbots also should not do so. Software engineering is not one of those fields.

The law does not make it a crime for a chatbot to do so, but if it does and the person it advises suffers damages it makes it so the injured person can sue the chatbot operator for those damages (and for attorney fees if the chatbot operator willfully allowed the chatbot to give such advice).

[bluepeter]

Same as it ever was. Honestly, I think we've probably passed peak consumer AI with with all the "guardrails" that regulations will require.