New York City Councilman Frank Morano – a former, longtime talk radio host on WABC, New York – is promoting legislation establishing new privacy, security and transparency protections for users of artificial intelligence chatbots. Morano’s bill would require 
chatbot providers to clearly disclose that users are interacting with artificial intelligence, give users access to their own chat logs, establish data security requirements, restrict the use of chatbot conversations for advertising and behavioral profiling, require affirmative consent before adult users’ conversations are used for AI training, and establish stronger protections for minors. Morano says, “Every transformative technology has had growing pains. Radio changed politics and mass communication. The telephone changed the meaning of distance. Cinema and television changed entertainment, advertising and culture. Society eventually developed rules, norms and expectations around all of them.
“But AI is different in one critical respect. The telephone did not independently learn how to become a better telephone. Television did not rewrite its own programming. A movie projector could not decide to act on its own. Artificial intelligence can learn, adapt, analyze enormous amounts of information and, increasingly, take actions with less human involvement. That means we need to think about the rules earlier, not decades after the fact.”