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Assembly committee approves bill to create registry and standards for AI auditors
Summary
AB 1405, carried by Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan, would establish standards and a registry for AI auditors and require baseline transparency and ethics expectations; the committee passed the bill as amended to the Appropriations Committee.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan presented AB 1405 as a framework intended to prepare California for future laws that might require third-party auditing of high‑risk artificial intelligence systems. The committee accepted author amendments and voted to pass the bill as amended to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Bauer-Kahan said AB 1405 does not mandate audits of any particular AI tool; instead the bill would create criteria and a public registry of auditors so that future laws could rely on a common set of standards and a single place to locate qualified auditors. “This is a…
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