Politico December 7, 2023
Daniel Payne, Ruth Reader, Erin Schumaker and Evan Peng

While Washington is mulling how, or whether, to regulate advanced artificial intelligence in health care, California is moving to fill the void.

California lawmakers are prepping at least a dozen bills aimed at curbing what are widely seen as AI’s biggest threats to society, writes POLITICO’s Jeremy B. White from Sacramento.

On the target list: AI in medicine that isn’t trained on data from a diverse pool of patients.

When AI relies on biased inputs, it spits out biased guidance.

“I hope we’re learning lessons from the advent of the Internet, where we didn’t act in a regulatory fashion in the way we needed to,” said Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Bay Area Democrat who chairs the Privacy and Consumer Protection...

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