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Assembly subcommittee backs bill to create AI team inside California Department of Justice
Summary
The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection subcommittee voted to send SB 69 to the Judiciary Committee after hearing testimony that the state lacks in-house legal expertise to oversee AI-related civil-rights and consumer-protection issues.
Senator Marc McNerney’s proposal to create an artificial intelligence unit inside the California Department of Justice cleared the Assembly subcommittee and was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Supporters told the panel the state’s attorney general’s office lacks the technical expertise needed to enforce consumer-protection and civil-rights laws in the age of AI. Rob Ellavel, co‑founder and CEO of the Transparency Coalition, said many state attorneys general have specialists for…
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