Legislationsby Glyph
CaliforniaCaliforniaLawAB 316
Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Harm Defense
Bars a defendant who developed, modified or used artificial intelligence from arguing that the AI autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.
Signed by the governor; Chapter 672, Statutes of 2025Oct 13, 2025 1 year ago
- Body
- California Legislature
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Introduced
- Jan 24, 2025
- In effect since
- Jan 110 months ago
- Votes
- Assembly 70-1, Senate 38-0, Assembly concurrence 78-0
- Sponsors
- D (Democrat)Democrat
- Topics
- AI
Timeline
Oct 13, 2025 1 year ago
Sep 8, 2025 1 year ago
May 19, 2025 1 year ago
Jan 24, 2025 1 year ago
Sponsors
- D (Democrat)Assemblymember Krell
Related
CaliforniaEmployment: Automated Decision Systems
Would require employers to give notice about automated decision systems used in employment decisions and bar retaliation against workers who assert their rights, enforced by the Labor Commissioner.
CaliforniaAB 2575
This bill would have protected nurses from disciplinary action when overriding unsafe artificial intelligence clinical recommendations.
CaliforniaAI therapy chatbot ban bill
This bill would have prohibited artificial intelligence algorithms from providing or advertising therapy services.
CaliforniaCalifornia AI Transparency Act Revisions
Would recast the California AI Transparency Act, removing the user threshold for covered providers and replacing AI detection tools with disclosure verification tools, as an urgency statute.
CaliforniaDigital Replicas
Would clarify that the right of publicity and false impersonation laws cover digital replicas of a person's voice or likeness.
CaliforniaEmployment: Technological Displacement: Notice
Would require Cal/WARN layoff notices to disclose when a mass layoff, relocation or termination is caused in whole or substantial part by AI or other automated technology.
CaliforniaExecutive Order to Boost AI Safety Oversight
The executive order increases safety oversight and requires independent verification of artificial intelligence systems.
CaliforniaHealth Care Services: AI Clinical Decision Support
Would require developers and deployers of AI clinical decision support systems to make reasonable efforts to identify systems with a foreseeable risk of biased impacts and to disclose intended uses and risks.
Change log
- AddedAdded to the list. Set by hand from the official record.Sep 27
Summaries of public legislative records, executive actions and court rulings, for reference, not legal advice. Check the official page linked on each item. First seen 2026-09-27. Checked against the official source.