Horizon Legacy CEO Nhung Nguyen, left, and worker Zayed Elbadri are shown with the company's cement-pouring robotic arm, Val 2.0, at a housing project site in Gananoque, Ont., where the arm was ...

"Using AI tools to trick, mislead, or defraud people is illegal," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said. "The FTC’s enforcement actions make clear that there is no AI exemption from the laws on the books.

DoNotPay, a company that claimed to offer the “world’s first robot lawyer,” has agreed to a $193,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the agency announced on Tuesday.