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Bill would create AI team inside California Department of Justice to build enforcement expertise
Summary
Sen. McNerney’s SB 69 would require the California Department of Justice to create a small, AI-focused legal team to advise on civil rights, public-safety and consumer issues; the Assembly subcommittee gave the bill a due-pass recommendation to the Judiciary Committee, 14-0.
Senator Michael McNerney introduced SB 69 on the need to build in-house artificial-intelligence expertise at the California Department of Justice.
McNerney said the bill “creates an AI focused team at the Department of Justice effectively to deal with AI on civil rights, public safety, and the law” and argued the office currently lacks the technical legal expertise to enforce consumer-protection and civil-rights laws against AI systems.
The bill would require the attorney general’s office to recruit and train…
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