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US State AI Regulation

State-by-state AI lawmaking activity, including enacted bans, failed bills and pending legislation.

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California's No Robo Bosses Act makes HR reviewers bring their own evidence before an AI-backed firing

Gavin Newsom signed California's No Robo Bosses Act, barring employers from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers starting July 2027. HR teams have about nine months to turn a sign-off click into a review backed by evidence the software did not generate.

Publishers:engadget.com gizmodo.com gov.ca.gov techradar.com thenextweb.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 20%
Operator
Operator 57%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives62
Confidence74
investOne report1 publisher

Anthropic negotiated out of Adam's Law by refusing users under 18

California now holds chatbot companies liable for failing to take reasonable measures against harmful outputs. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon all sat in the negotiations that wrote the standard.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence55
scienceOne report1 publisher

Amodei's embedded auditors would test models known to shift behavior based on perceived audience

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.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption10
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence60
productOne report1 publisher

Hugging Face, a company Nvidia is buying for $12.93bn, asks to join Anthropic's third-party evaluator program

Anthropic and OpenAI have promised outside evaluators permanent, employee-level access to their systems. Neither has published the terms, and the first volunteer is mid-acquisition by a would-be anchor investor in Anthropic's IPO.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence56
Adoption18
Hype gap+38
Incentives82
Confidence58
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Seven cents a million tokens buys the capability that cost twenty dollars in 2022

Stanford's AI Index puts a 142-fold parameter cut and a more than 280-fold price cut behind one fixed MMLU threshold. That narrows where building your own still pays, and it lands in a state-law count that doubled in a year.

Publishers:hai.stanford.edu

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption68
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence57
productOne report1 publisher

AI marriage bans are being drafted as persona rules, not data rules

Missouri's AI Non-Sentience and Responsibility Act died unanimously in committee. Its text is still the clearest map of where a companion app's next legal constraint would land.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption41
Hype gap+22
Incentives71
Confidence54