{"id":231818,"date":"2026-06-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/california-admits-using-high-risk-ai-including-systems-it-failed-to-report-last-year\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:05:37","slug":"california-admits-using-high-risk-ai-including-systems-it-failed-to-report-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/california-admits-using-high-risk-ai-including-systems-it-failed-to-report-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"California admits using high-risk AI \u2014 including systems it failed to report last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2026\/06\/california-admits-government-ai-risk-after-denying\/\">California admits using high-risk AI \u2014 including systems it failed to report last year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2026\/06\/california-admits-government-ai-risk-after-denying\/\">https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2026\/06\/california-admits-government-ai-risk-after-denying\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-15 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"calmatters.org\">calmatters.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points from the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; California state officials have shifted from reporting zero automated systems a year ago to reporting the use of six high-risk AI-like systems today, which are used for consequential decision-making affecting Californians&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The six systems assist in tasks such as predicting recidivism, evaluating unemployment claims, administering exams for California State University students, and detecting AI-generated assignments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This shift is mandated under a 2023 state law requiring state agencies to annually disclose their use of these systems, driven by concerns from civil rights, privacy, and civil liberties groups about biases in these technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; While this report discloses the presence of six current high-risk AI systems, it also mentions six that were initially flagged but later deemed not to be high-risk, including an AI for legislative bill analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Additional oversight is suggested as several AI initiatives, including a governor-supported pilot project with Anthropic and a contract with OpenAI for a school assistant, are not covered under the current reporting law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; There are gaps in reporting as several state agencies, notably the judicial branch and the University of California system, are excluded from the mandated reports, along with ongoing AI projects in those sectors.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California admits using high-risk AI \u2014 including systems it failed to report last year https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2026\/06\/california-admits-government-ai-risk-after-denying\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/012822-California-Seal-MHN-CM-02-1.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231818","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\/231818"}],"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=231818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231820,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231818\/revisions\/231820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}