New AI regulation gives Californians rare look inside development
New AI regulation gives Californians rare look inside development
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/12/new-ai-regulation/
Publish Date: 2025-12-31 08:30:00
Source Domain: calmatters.org
- California’s new AI transparency law (Senate Bill 53) mandates that big tech companies disclose their protocols for preventing and addressing AI disasters.
- Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the law also offers whistleblower protections to employees aware of safety risks posed by advanced AI models.
- Companies must publish frameworks detailing their responses to critical safety incidents and catastrophic risks, with fines of up to $1 million per violation.
- The law requires public reporting of critical safety incidents, distinguishing between imminent threats and general risks.
- SB 53 influences transparency in AI by mandating extensive disclosure on model uses, risks, and third-party reviews, although criticism points to its limited scope regarding environmental, disinformation, and societal biases.
- Additional transparency is expected from another law (Assembly Bill 2013), which requires disclosure of data used to train AI models.
- Future reports from the Office of Emergency Services will offer more insights but in an anonymized manner, limiting public identification of threat sources.
