Define “artificial intelligence” as an engineered or machine-based system influencing environments, and regulate high-risk automated decision systems impacting access to essential services. Mandate inventory of these systems by September 2024, assessing benefits, alternatives, data use, and mitigation measures, with annual reports until 2029.
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This is a binding California state statute enacted by the legislature with mandatory obligations, specific deadlines, and enforcement through state agencies.
The document has minimal coverage of risk domains, primarily addressing governance failure (6.5) through establishment of oversight mechanisms, and touching on discrimination (1.1, 1.3) and transparency (7.4) through requirements for high-risk automated decision systems. Coverage is concentrated in governance and fairness domains with scores of 2-3.
The document primarily governs Public Administration (state agencies using automated decision systems), with additional coverage of Information (social media platforms), Education (California Community Colleges), Health Care, Finance, Housing (through high-risk automated decision system definitions), and Trade, Transportation and Utilities (warehouse distribution centers).
The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages through requirements for inventory, reporting, and ongoing assessment of high-risk automated decision systems already in use or proposed for use by state agencies. It also touches on Verify and Validate through requirements for risk assessments and performance metrics.
The document explicitly defines and covers 'artificial intelligence' and 'automated decision systems' with detailed definitions. It addresses high-risk automated decision systems specifically but does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.
The people of the State of California; California State Legislature
The document is a California state bill enacted by the legislature, as indicated by the opening phrase 'The people of the State of California do enact as follows' which is standard legislative language.
Department of Technology; Secretary of Government Operations; Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development; Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection; Senate Committee on Governmental Organization
The Department of Technology is designated to conduct inventories and submit reports on automated decision systems. The Secretary of Government Operations must evaluate deepfake impacts and develop coordinated plans. Local agencies must enforce disclosure requirements.
Department of Technology; Secretary of Government Operations; Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection; Senate Committee on Governmental Organization; Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development
The Department of Technology must conduct annual inventories and submit reports to legislative committees. The Secretary must report on deepfake technology. The Governor's Office must make economic development subsidy reports publicly available.
State agencies; California State University; Board of Parole Hearings; Department of Consumer Affairs professional licensing bodies; local agencies; social media companies; warehouse distribution centers
The document targets state agencies using high-risk automated decision systems, local agencies providing economic development subsidies to warehouse distribution centers, and social media companies operating platforms in California.
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