Canada's federal government has introduced legislation aimed at AI chatbots, the kind people now use for homework help, advice and customer service.
Chatbots went from novelty to everyday tool fast, mostly with no rules beyond each company's own promises. A G7 country writing real standards moves the debate from whether to regulate to how well.
Still, a first step beats no step.
A bill in Illinois, SB 315, would be the first US law requiring independent audits of how frontier AI developers manage safety.
Read the storySome AI models work through problems step by step in writing before they answer. New research found they struggle to control what shows up in that written reasoning.
Read the storyGoogle and the education company Eedi ran a randomised trial with 1,179 students in UK maths classrooms. On the quick checks after each session, students helped by the AI tutor did about as well as students helped by expert humans.
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