AI, Social Media Top 2024 Tech Issues for California Legislature

Jan. 3, 2024, 10:02 AM UTC

California lawmakers expect their efforts to regulate technology this year to affect the rest of the nation, given that the state is home to Silicon Valley and the nation’s biggest tech companies.

That’s especially true with emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, where comprehensive legislative action could be a first in the nation, similar to California’s lead on privacy laws.

“We’ve seen this in other technologies before, where the federal government looks to what is happening in California for its own guidance around how to create federal law,” said Peter Leroe-Munoz, who handles tech policy for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, ...

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