On September 29, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1047, which would have enacted the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (the “Act”) to create a comprehensive regulatory framework for the development of artificial intelligence models. The veto embodies the dilemma that has emerged around the regulation of AI applications: how can laws prevent harms in the use and development of AI, while promoting innovation and harnessing the power…
“Neural data” is the newest addition to the ever expanding California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Signed into law on September 28, 2024, SB 1223 amends the CCPA to add “personal information that reveals neural data” to the categories of personal information that constitute sensitive personal information. It further amends the CCPA to define “neural data” as “information that is generated by measuring the activity of a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system, and that is…
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued a 63-page Executive Order to define the trajectory of artificial intelligence adoption, governance and usage within the United States government. The Executive Order outlines eight guiding principles and priorities for US federal agencies to adhere to as they adopt, govern and use AI. While safety and security are predictably high on the list, so too is a desire to make America a leader in the AI industry including…