California Government Code

§ 11546.45.5

GOV § 11546.45.5 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 5.6

Statute text

(a)For purposes of this section:

(1)“Artificial intelligence” means an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, infer from the input it receives how to generate outputs that can influence physical or virtual environments.

(2)“Automated decision system” means a computational process derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence that issues simplified output, including a score, classification, or recommendation, that is used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons. “Automated decision system” does not include a spam email filter, firewall, antivirus software, identity and access management tools, calculator, database, dataset, or other compilation of data.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 843, Sec. 3. (AB 2885) Effective January 1, 2025.