California Government Code

§ 11549.63

GOV § 11549.63 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 5.9

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The Legislature recognizes the tremendous potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the lives of its citizens and the functioning of government. However, the Legislature also recognizes that the use of AI must be guided by principles of fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability to ensure that the rights and opportunities of all Californians are protected in the age of artificial intelligence.

(b)The Legislature further recognizes that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) enables significant, beneficial uses through its unique capabilities, but GenAI raises novel risks compared to conventional AI across critical areas, including democratic and legal processes, biases and equity, public health and safety, and the economy, and requires measures to address insufficiently guarded governmental systems and unintended or emergent harmful effects from this technology. Additionally, because humans have explicit and implicit biases built into our society, GenAI has the capacity to amplify these biases as it learns from input data. Therefore, it is imperative to consider the implications on Californians of, among other categories, different regions, income, races, ethnicities, gender, ages, religions, abilities, and sexual orientation for all GenAI inputs, outputs, and products for both prioritizing implementations that may promote equity and guarding against bias and other negative impacts.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 928, Sec. 2. (SB 896) Effective January 1, 2025.