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Committee backs AB 489 to bar AI systems from posing as licensed health professionals
Summary
Lawmakers advanced AB 489, which would prohibit AI systems from representing themselves as licensed health professionals and make deployers and developers liable for misrepresentation; the bill drew broad support from medical societies and unions and was sent to Senate Judiciary.
Assemblymember Bonta introduced AB 489 to prevent artificial-intelligence systems from misrepresenting themselves as licensed health professionals. The Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee voted to move the bill to Senate Judiciary.
Bonta said the rise of generative AI has produced systems that can convincingly mimic clinicians and that the bill applies existing title protections to AI systems so a chatbot or voice agent cannot claim to be a physician, nurse or psychologist. "This…
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