California - Session 2025-2026
Title: Artificial intelligence: defenses.
Existing law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person. Existing law requires the developer of a generative artificial intelligence system or service that is released on or after January 1, 2022, and made publicly available to Californians for use, to post on the developer's internet website documentation regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence system or service. Existing law defines “artificial intelligence” for these purposes. This bill would prohibit a defendant who developed, modified, or used artificial intelligence, as defined, from asserting a defense that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-24 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-10-13 | Status | enacted |
| 2025-10-13 | Latest Action | Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2025. |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AB 1898 | Workplace artificial intelligence tools. | in_committee |
| AB 1651 | State Bar of California: artificial intelligence. | in_committee |
| SB 1142 | Digital Dignity Act. | in_committee |
| AB 2412 | State agencies or departments: public communications. | in_committee |
| AB 2583 | Office of Small Business Advocate: artificial intelligence. | in_committee |
| SB 1146 | Health-related consumer products and services: artificial intelligence. | in_committee |
| SB 1159 | Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance. | in_committee |
| SB 1276 | Crimes: sexual exploitation of a child. | in_committee |