Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law ^34.1%

The Markup - By Colin Lecher, Katie Honan, THE CITY - 1/30/2026, 12:00 PM

Negativity Bias 29.8% - Hasty Generalization 22.8% - Appeal to Authority 20.2%

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.” The chatbot, which was released by the Eric Adams administration in fall of 2023, was meant to provide business owners with an accessible way to check... more