Governor Newsom announces new initiatives to advance safe and responsible AI, protect Californians | Governor of California

Governor Gavin Newsom announces new initiatives to advance safe and responsible AI , protect Californians .

Governor Newsom signed 17 bills covering the deployment and regulation of GenAI technology.

He also ordered state agencies to expand their assessment of the risks from potential catastrophic events.

The Governor has asked the world’s leading experts on GenAI to help California develop workable guardrails for deploying GenAI , focusing on developing an empirical, science-based trajectory analysis of frontier models.

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 , one of several GenAI bills considered this year by the California Legislature .

Governor Newsom said the bill does not take into account whether an AI system is deployed in high-risk environments, involves critical decision-making or the use of sensitive data.

California has led the nation in harnessing these transformative technologies while studying the risks they present.

The state is home to 32 of the world’s 50 leading GenAI companies.

AB 2885 by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) Establishes a uniform definition for AI , or artificial intelligence, in California law.

AB 3030 requires specified health care providers to disclose the use of GenAI when it is used to generate communications to a patient pertaining to patient clinical information.