California Governor Gavin Newsom looked at 38 AI-related bills in September. These included the very controversial SB 1047, which the state’s lawmakers sent to him to sign. On Sunday, he blocked SB 1047, which was California’s controversial AI bill that tried to stop AI disasters. However, this month he signed more than a dozen other AI bills into law. These bills try to deal with the most important problems in artificial intelligence, such as the risk of Al Gore, deepfake nudes made by AI image generators, and Hollywood companies making AI copies of dead actors.
In a press release, Governor Newsom’s office said, “California is home to most of the world’s top AI companies. The state is working to harness these transformative technologies to help solve urgent problems while studying the risks they pose.”
Governor Newsom has signed 18 AI bills into law so far. Some of these laws are the most broad ones in the US yet when it comes to creative AI. This is what they do.
AI Risk
Governor Newsom signed SB 896 into law on Sunday. It says that the California Office of Emergency Services has to do risk assessments on the possible threats that creative AI could pose. CalOES will work with cutting edge model companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to look into how AI could threaten important state assets and events that could kill a lot of people.
Data For Training
Another law that Newsom signed this month says that companies that use generative AI must put information about the data they use to train their AI systems on their websites. When AB 2013 starts to apply in 2026, AI companies will have to share information about where their datasets came from, how they are used, how many data points are in the set, whether the data is owned or licensed, and when it was collected, among other things.
AI Programs And Privacy
On Sunday, Newsom also signed AB 1008, which makes it clear that California’s privacy rules also apply to generative AI systems. That means that California’s privacy rules will limit how businesses can use and make money off of someone’s personal information if an AI system like ChatGPT makes it public (like their name, address, or biometric data).
Learning
This month, Newsom signed AB 2876 into law. It tells California’s State Board of Education to include “AI literacy” in its math, science, and history lesson plans and curriculum outlines. These changes mean that schools in California might start teaching students the basics of how AI works, along with the pros, cons, and moral issues that come up when using it.
SB 1288 is another new law that says California superintendents have to set up working groups to look into how AI is being used in public schools.
Describe AI
On this month, Newsom signed a bill that gives California law a single meaning for “artificial intelligence.” AB 2885 says that artificial intelligence is “an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit goals, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can affect physical or virtual environments.”
Medical Care
Another bill signed into law in September was AB 3030. It says that healthcare workers must tell patients when they use generative AI to talk to them, especially if the messages contain clinical information about the patient.
On the other hand, Newsom just signed SB 1120, which limits how health care service companies and health insurers can automate their work. The law says that qualified doctors must watch over the use of AI tools in these places.
AI Phone Calls
Governor Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires robocalls to say if they use AI-generated sounds. The goal of AB 2905 is to stop another case of the deepfake text that sounded like Joe Biden’s voice and confused many voters in New Hampshire earlier this year.
Deepfake Sex Videos
As of Sunday, Newsom signed AB 1831 into law. This law adds content made by AI systems to current laws against child pornography.
Last week, Newsom signed two laws that stop people from making and sharing deepfake nudes. By making it illegal, SB 926 makes it against the law to threaten someone with AI-made naked pictures that look like them.
SB 981 also became law on Thursday. It says that social media sites must set up ways for users to report deepfake nudes that look like real ones. The content must then be blocked briefly while the platform looks into it. If it is found to be false, it must be taken down forever.
Marks On Water
Newsom also signed a bill into law on Thursday that will help people spot content that was made by AI. SB 942 says that widely used generative AI systems have to say in their content’s source data that the content was created by AI. As an example, all pictures made by OpenAI’s Dall-E now need a small tag in their metadata that says they were made by AI.
A lot of AI companies already do this, and there are a lot of free tools that can help people read this source data and find content that was made by AI.
Fake Election Results
This week, California’s governor signed three laws that make it harder for AI to make fake news that could affect elections.
AB 2655 is a new law in California that says big online platforms like Facebook and X have to get rid of or name election-related AI deepfakes and set up ways for people to report them. Candidates for office and elected officials can ask for injunctive relief if a big online site doesn’t follow the act.
AB 2839 is another rule that goes after people on social media who post or share AI deepfakes that could trick people into voting in upcoming elections. The law went into effect right away on Tuesday, and Newsom said Elon Musk might be breaking it.
California’s new law, AB 2355, says that election ads made by AI must now be completely honest. Trump might not be able to get away with posting AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift supporting him on Truth Social from now on (she backed Kamala Harris after all). The FCC has suggested a similar requirement for disclosure at the national level, and it is already against the law for robocalls to use voices made by AI.
People And AI
SAG-AFTRA, the largest film and broadcast actors union in the country, pushed for and Newsom signed two laws earlier this month that set new standards for California’s media business. AB 2602 says that companies must get permission from an actor before using AI to make a copy of their voice or likeness.
For example, legally cleared copies of deceased actors were used in the recent “Alien” and “Star Wars” movies, among others. AB 1836, on the other hand, says that companies can’t make digital copies of deceased actors without permission from their estates.
SB 1047 Is Turned Down
A few bills that deal with AI are still up for Governor Newsom to decide on before the end of September. But SB 1047 isn’t one of them; on Sunday, the governor killed the bill.
Newsom wrote in a letter about his choice that SB 1047 was too narrowly focused on big AI systems that could “give the public a false sense of security.” Governor of California said that small AI models could be just as dangerous as the ones that SB 1047 is trying to stop. He also said that rules need to be more open.
Newsom may have put out a hint about SB 1047 and how he plans to regulate the AI business more generally when he talked to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff earlier this month at the 2024 Dreamforce conference.
This month, Newsom said on stage, “There’s one bill that is kind of outsized in terms of public discourse and consciousness, and that’s this SB 1047.” “What are the risks of AI that can be proven and what are the risks that can only be imagined?” I can’t figure out everything. How can we figure this out? “That’s the approach we’re taking across the board on this.”
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