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#172: New York's Child Chatbot Law, Gangneung's Five-Minute Ambulances, Durban's Landslide Map
Impact Signals #172: New York's Child Chatbot Law, Gangneung's Five-Minute Ambulances, Durban's Landslide Map Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law on October 28 that strips companion chatbots of a dozen features for anyone under 18, from posing as a friend to assisting with self-harm, backed by fines of up to $25,000 per violation. In Gangneung, South Korea, the city says AI-coordinated traffic signals have cut average emergency-vehicle arrival times from 13 minutes to five, and in South Africa, researchers have turned satellite data from the deadly 2022 floods into a map of where eThekwini's…
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