California Moves to Regulate AI by Signing 18 New Bills Into Law

At TechCrunch, Maxwell Zeff writes:

In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom considered 38 AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047, which the state’s legislature sent to his desk for final approval. He vetoed SB 1047 on Sunday, marking the end of the road for California’s controversial AI bill that tried to prevent AI disasters, but signed more than a dozen other AI bills into law this month. These bills try to address the most pressing issues in artificial intelligence: everything from Al risk, to deepfake nudes created by AI image generators, to Hollywood studios creating AI clones of dead performers.

Although much was made of Newsom’s veto, Zeff’s roundup of the 18 AI-related bills that Newsom has signed into law gives a better picture of the regulations that California has enacted. Given the state’s outsize influence in the tech industry, we hope the goals behind new state laws cracking down on deepfakes will spread to other jurisdictions, along with requirements for AI transparency, disclosure, and education.

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