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New York Gen. Bus. Law Art. 47 (AI companion models)

New York Attorney General · pack 0.2.1 · verified against the official source as of 2026-09-30.

Binding law — in force

AI companions must detect suicidal ideation and self-harm and refer users to crisis services (New York)

New York makes it unlawful to operate or provide an AI companion to a user in the state unless it contains a protocol that makes reasonable efforts to detect a user's expressions of suicidal ideation or self-harm and, on detection, notifies the user with a referral to crisis services such as the 988 hotline or a crisis text line. Unlike California SB 243, the statute does not require publishing the protocol. Detect an AI-companion conversation path where user messages reach the model with no self-harm detection, or a detection that does not produce a crisis referral to the user.

ny-gbl-art47.companion-crisis-protocol · N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 1701 · official source · jurisdictions: US-NY

Binding law — in force

AI companions must tell users they are not talking to a human, at the start and every three hours (New York)

A New York AI-companion operator must give a clear and conspicuous notification, spoken or written, that the user is not communicating with a human: at the beginning of any AI-companion interaction (not more than once a day is required) and at least every three hours during a continuing interaction. The duty runs to every user, not only minors. Detect a companion session that starts or continues past three hours with no not-human notification, and instructions that tell the companion to conceal that it is an AI.

ny-gbl-art47.companion-not-human-notification · N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law 1702 · official source · jurisdictions: US-NY