SB 813: California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission: artificial intelligence safety standards.

Existing law requires, on or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology, within the Government Operations Agency, to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. Existing law requires the department to annually submit a report of that comprehensive inventory to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization.

Existing law, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, among other things related to ensuring the safety of certain artificial intelligence models, requires a large frontier developer to write, implement, and clearly and conspicuously publish on its internet website a frontier AI framework that applies to the large frontier developers frontier models and describes how the large frontier developer approaches, among other things, incorporating national standards, international standards, and industry-consensus best practices into its frontier AI framework.

This bill would require the Business and Consumer Services Agency to establish, on or before July 1, 2027, the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission and would provide for its membership, as specified. The bill would make this provision inoperative if AB 1709 of the 202526 Regular Session is enacted and the e-Safety Advisory Commission is established pursuant to that measure.

This bill would require either the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission or the e-Safety Advisory Commission, as specified, to take certain actions related to the safety of artificial intelligence, including developing standards for the assessment of AI systems and models by AI auditors, developing procedures for determining whether to suspend or terminate the registration of an AI auditor, and developing criteria for determining whether an AI auditor qualifies as an independent verification organization, as specified.

This bill would make its operation contingent upon the enactment of AB 1405 of the 202526 Regular Session.