California Issues AI Guidelines for Procurement, Government Use

The California Department of Technology released on Thursday a set of rules that state agencies must follow if they purchase or use artificial intelligence to generate content, such as analyses of health-care claims or tax filing data.

The state is now one of the first to have formal policies in place on governmental use of AI.

The new rules are a major step in advancing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order to set guardrails on artificial intelligence after his administration released a report on the technology’s risks and benefits late last year. The administrative work comes as the state legislature ...