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#55 — Thirty-Nine to Zero. The Architecture Is Right. But the Devil Lives in Its Details.
California passed both halves of its mental-health-AI architecture in a single week, both unanimous. The architecture is right. Item four prohibits AI from detecting emotions or mental states, which is something language models cannot stop doing. The peer-coaching exemption lets bad actors rebrand and walk through. Two amendments would fix both. Pennsylvania, Texas, and forty-two attorneys general are building the enforcement layer the federal Senate is not. Vermont signed its neural-rights statute. Rhode Island passed two AI mental-health bills. The VA is rolling ambient AI scribe to every…
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