Washington lawmakers move forward with guardrails on AI detection, chatbots

By: Nate Sanford

Outlets: KNKX

Published: February 28, 2026

Words: 1,217

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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Washington state Sen. Lisa Wellman is a self-described science fiction fanatic.

Wellman regularly gives teenagers Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short story collection I, Robot. She recalls the book’s famous “Three Laws of Robotics,” which include the provision that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

It’s a good lesson, Wellman said, one that some in the tech industry would do well to remember.

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