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California law establishing a framework for independent organizations to assess whether AI systems comply with state law.
Newsom's executive order sets a deadline for recommending the shutdown capability he vetoed in 2024, and the two audit laws he signed last week already give the state the inspectors such a rule would need.
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Newsom's executive order asks an expert group he has not yet named for recommendations on onsite verifiers, independently audited risk reports and a routinely tested kill switch. California has until January 2028 to certify anyone to do the testing.
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Dario Amodei's September 12 essay would put outside evaluators inside frontier labs to confirm that a capability slowdown is real. The field has no agreed standard for what access such an audit requires.
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Newsom signed AB 1405 on September 9, giving California's Government Operations Agency until 2029 to publish a registry of AI auditors, complete with registration numbers, annual fees and independence rules for anyone selling a covered audit.
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California's AB 1709 bars autoplay, infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations for users under 16. The companion-chatbot law signed the same day requires operators to take age brackets from the operating system.
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