California lawmakers advance AI regulatory bills in face of past defeats

California lawmakers are again advancing industry-opposed bills to regulate different aspects of artificial intelligence systems – including requiring transparency behind automated decision systems -- despite failing to pass virtually the same legislation over the past few years.

“When I introduced [this bill] three years ago, I thought, ‘this is going to be a really easy bill’; here I am three years later,” said Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D) during an April 22 hearing of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee,...