{"id":184379,"date":"2026-05-05T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:04:07","slug":"pennsylvania-sues-ai-company-saying-its-chatbots-illegally-hold-themselves-out-as-licensed-doctors-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184379\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system\u2019s users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed professional.\n<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed Friday, asks the statewide Commonwealth Court to order Character Technologies Inc., the company behind Character.AI, to stop its chatbots \u201cfrom engaging in the unlawful practice of medicine and surgery.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit said an investigator from the state agency that licenses professionals created an account on Character.AI, searched on the word \u201cpsychiatry\u201d and found a large number of characters, including one described as a \u201cdoctor of psychiatry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[278,82198,1609,33,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-184379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ai","tag-ai-medicine","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}