Assembly Bill No. 2885
Assembly Bill No. 2885 establishes a standardized statutory definition for artificial intelligence across several California codes, including provisions relating to the Business and Professions Code, Education Code, and Government Code. The legislation defines AI as an engineered or machine-based system with varying levels of autonomy that can infer from inputs to generate outputs influencing physical or virtual environments. It provides crucial definitional clarity for existing state mandates concerning automated decision systems, deepfakes, and technology reporting.
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Who issued it
Who it governs
State regulators, legislators, and public agencies in California seeking statutory definitions and compliance requirements related to artificial intelligence technologies.
What the document contains
The bill establishes a uniform statutory definition of artificial intelligence for California law and amends existing statutes governing social media terms of service reporting, online community college research and development, state agency inventories of high-risk automated decision systems, deepfake evaluations by the Government Operations Agency, and local agency economic development subsidies.
The bill does not establish broad civil liability frameworks, sector-specific deployment bans, or direct enforcement mechanisms for private-sector AI development beyond supplying definitions and updating existing reporting duties.
- Defines artificial intelligence as an engineered or machine-based system that varies in its level of autonomy and can infer from received input to generate outputs influencing physical or virtual environments.
- Integrates the uniform definition of artificial intelligence across multiple California codes including the Business and Professions Code, Education Code, and Government Code.
- Applies the definition to support existing regulatory frameworks concerning high-risk automated decision systems, deepfakes, digital content forgery, and terms of service reporting.
- Maintains reporting and inventory requirements for state agencies regarding high-risk automated decision systems.
· SECTION 1. Section 22675 of the Business and Professions Code is amended · SECTION 2. Section 75002 of the Education Code is amended · SECTION 3. Section 11546.45.5 of the Government Code is amended · SECTION 4. Section 11547.5 of the Government Code is amended · SECTION 5. Section 53083.1 of the Government Code is amended
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Human Dignity
2/5Respect for the inherent worth of persons
Develop or identify mechanisms for content creators to enable the public to validate the authenticity of original media and nondeceptive manipulations to establish digital content provenance without materially compromising personal privacy or civil liberties.
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Human Oversight
2/5Humans remain in control of consequential decisions
used to assist or replace human discretionary decisionmaking and materially impacts natural persons.
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Privacy
2/5Protection of personal data and private life
The risks, including privacy risks, associated with the deployment of digital content forgery technologies and deepfakes on state and local government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state.
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Transparency
3/5Openness about how AI systems work and are used
On or before January 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit a report of the comprehensive inventory described in subdivision (b) to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization.
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Enforcement
1/5Consequences and compliance mechanisms with real force
On or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology shall conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory
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Impact Assessment
4/5Required assessment of an AI system's risks/impacts before or during use
the Department of Technology shall conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency.
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