Bill Text: CA AB331 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 331

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Bill Title: Automated decision tools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB331 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 331

Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan

January 30, 2023

An act relating to artificial intelligence.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 331, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. Artificial intelligence.

Existing law establishes within the Government Operations Agency the Department of Technology, which is supervised by the Director of Technology. Existing law authorizes the director and the department to exercise various powers in creating and managing the information technology policy of the state.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, or veteran or military status.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the use of artificial intelligence in accordance with prescribed principles relating to safety and effectiveness, algorithmic discrimination, notice and explanation of use, and human alternatives, consideration, or fallback.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation, entitled “The Artificial Intelligence Act,” relating to the use of artificial intelligence in accordance with principles relating to the following:

(a) Safe and effective systems.

(b) Algorithmic discrimination.

(d) Human alternatives, consideration, and fallback.