California gives AI price discrimination some breathing room

Repression of estimated software that sets prices and can tear you away It seems boiled in California’s legislation earlier this yearBut today the MPs have broken down, voting to kill accounts that would keep the software Determining the price of rentals of apartments and Other goods and servicesS Another bill that strives to prohibit the use of personal pricing informationIt was again to apply only to grocery stores.

Legislators also killed a bill that aims to protect customers of higher -cost electric utility services related to Distribution of data centers that are partly guided by energy systems for artificial intelligence such as ChatgptS Measure would require data centers to open publicly how much energy they useS

The author of the legislation, the democratic member of the Assembly of San Ramon Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, writes in a statement that she is disappointed when he sees the bill of the bill and that without it a law, state regulators could not “predict the demand in this rapidly growing sector.

Legislators also delayed decisions next year on bills that would require independent AI auditors to register in the country and mandate AI’s human supervision used in places considered a critical infrastructuresuch as dams or wastewater systems.

Thehe Legislatives came with the completion of the process of the secret calendar of tension In the budget loan committees in both California legislative panels, during which the fiscal impact of the accounts is considered before many were killed without explanation. As part of this process today, the fate of hundreds of accounts have been identified, including more than 30 related to how technology and AI can influence children, workers, patientsand society.

A fair deal from technological regulation is experiencing reduction, including a bill that would Using software software for outlawed use In every contract that will now move to the Senate floor for final vote. Some regulation of the Data Center has also done so through the budget loan process, including efforts in the state senate to limit utility’s ability to Pass the cost of growing tax data centers and a bill that Requires data centers to report how much water they useS

The Budget Loan Committee also voted to approve bill This would require developers of modern artificial intelligence models to evaluate the potential of catastrophic risk in their technology and to give the public and employees an easy way to report to state authorities the existence of AI with the ability to cause death, bodily harm or damage to the property.

Trio of accounts that seek to stop employers from using AI to Exploration workers or decision -making related to hiring, payment or disciplinary action also did it through the budget loan process, though bill was amended to eliminate the contested process of workers when they believe that AI had made a mistake.

Against the background of increasing evidence that Accompanying bots that imitate intimate human relationships It can exacerbate mental health problems, California’s legislators will vote several bills over the next two weeks that seek to protect children from AI or harmful meetings online. Budget loan committees have approved bills that disable the design of accompanying bots and other systems for children and place a protocol to follow the accompanying bots When the topic of suicide appearsS

These developments Comes days after New York Times reported That Adam Rhine, a 16-year-old boy from California, died of suicide. In a trial Filed to the High Court in California on Tuesday, his parents accused Openai Chatgpt of acting as his suicide coach. Megan Garcia, the mother of a teenager in Florida who took her life after forming an intimate relationship with a chatbot made by California -based Character.Ai., approved the suicide protocol bill earlier this yearS

Before the news of Adam Rhine’s death after reports On Meta’s AI chatbots talking to children in harmful and inappropriate ways, California General Prosecutor and 43 other US states sent a Letter To head AI companies to warn them that they “use every aspect of our organ to protect children from exploitation through predatory artificial intelligence products.”

Legislators have also approved bills that seek to prevent Out of campus cyberbullying., Deepfake Pornography of Minorsand that requires a Warning Label for Social Mediaeavesdropping on a call for Such labels of the previous General Surgeon of the United States Vivek deadS Labeling legislation was significantly soaked, with changes to reduce the size of the label, eliminating the ability of private citizens to bring a claim for violations and delayed implementation of the rules.

Today was also an advanced bill that seeks to keep the developers responsible for AI technology by preventing them from preventing them Accusing AI himself of harming people as protection in courtS

California legislative power has until September 12 to decide whether these and many other bills should become a law. The governor Newsom will then have until October 12 to decide whether to sign these bills in the law or to veto them.