{"id":202693,"date":"2026-04-06T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/californias-ai-contradiction-r-street-institute\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:30:37","slug":"californias-ai-contradiction-r-street-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/californias-ai-contradiction-r-street-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s AI Contradiction &#8211; R Street Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/californias-ai-contradiction\/\">California\u2019s AI Contradiction &#8211; R Street Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/californias-ai-contradiction\/\">https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/californias-ai-contradiction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-06 14:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rstreet.org\">www.rstreet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed California&#8217;s SB 1047 for lacking an empirical and science-based analytical foundation to avoid regulating AI without considering risk contexts.<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen months later, Newsom signed EO N-5-26, requiring AI vendors to attest to ill-defined policies without empirical basis, mirroring the approach he criticized in the SB 1047 veto.<\/li>\n<li>EO N-5-26 imposes broad standards without context, thresholds, compliance benchmarks, or appeals processes, giving unchecked discretion to state officials.<\/li>\n<li>While SB 1047 went through a political accountability process, EO N-5-26 bypasses public deliberation and could potentially be justified on procedural grounds.<\/li>\n<li>Section 2 of EO N-5-26 allows state officials to challenge federal supply-chain risk designations, undermining national security and lacking clear criteria. <\/li>\n<li>The EO&#8217;s ambiguous standards point to a policy failure by not standing on solid empirical grounds despite Newsom&#8217;s stated preferences, potentially driven more by partisanship than rational regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s AI Contradiction &#8211; R Street Institute https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/californias-ai-contradiction\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-06 14:26:00 Source Domain: www.rstreet.org&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AdobeStock_1838899936-copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202695,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202693\/revisions\/202695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}