California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed the nation’s first law regulating artificial intelligence chatbots, defying White House calls for a hands-off approach. The measure requires chatbot operators to implement safeguards for user interactions and allows lawsuits if failures cause harm, state senator Steve Padilla, the bill’s sponsor, said.
Good. Imagine the relative utopia we might live in if other states were as proactive about protecting the rights of their citizens.
I want digital privacy laws, right-to-repair, and the million other advocacy-driven things Cali has. It’ll never happen in a million years, but I can still want them.
I can’t wait to leave my shit-hole state and move West.
I’d certainly welcome more people to my state, but it’s not perfect. CA does have some of the best policies and is often a trendsetter, but plenty of bad ones get by, too, like propositions passed with sneaky language. We got flack for the prison slavery one that was a proposition, for instance.
Still miles above some other states though. I genuinely am concerned for places like Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc., especially since I’m an education professional…