California lawmakers weigh EU, other models in developing AI ‘framework’

California lawmakers are weighing the European Union’s AI Act and other artificial intelligence definitions and governance models around the world in developing an overarching “framework” for regulating the technologies, even as one of the state’s own agencies is already advancing specific draft rules for a key portion of the emerging AI sector.

“This year, more than 30 AI bills have been introduced in the Assembly alone, and this committee is committed to crafting bills into a single regulatory framework --...