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Board of Behavioral Sciences backs bill to bar AI impersonating licensed health professionals
Summary
The Board of Behavioral Sciences voted to support Assembly Bill 489, which would give licensing boards authority to pursue enforcement against persons or entities that use AI systems to represent they are licensed health care providers.
At a public meeting, the California Board of Behavioral Sciences voted to support Assembly Bill 489 (Bonta), a bill that would prohibit a person or entity that develops or deploys an artificial intelligence system from representing or implying the system is a licensed health care provider. The board's motion to support the bill passed unanimously.
Board staff member Roseanne described the bill as expanding licensing-board jurisdiction to permit enforcement against companies as well as individuals. "This bill proposes prohibiting a person…
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