California Lays Out First Principles, Safeguards for AI’s Future

California agencies should deploy humans to review any AI-generated outputs and disclose when they’re using the technology to conduct state business, according to the state’s first recommendations on use of generative AI.

The report is the next step after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s September executive order directing the state to take advantage of artificial intelligence technology that can create text, code, images, and other content when prompted. The order could set a benchmark for future private-sector regulation, say observers in the AI space.

The state, home to many of the top US AI companies, aims to use its purchasing power to ...