California water board joins opposition to high-risk-AI bill

The California State Water Resources Control Board is lending its voice to mounting opposition to a bill in California that would regulate high-risk use cases of artificial intelligence. The board said that the bill is “vague, ambiguous, and could encompass many current tools used, like excel workbooks.”

Known as the Automated Decisions Safety Act, or AB 1018, the legislation would set new rules for how artificial intelligence and other automated-decision systems are used in situations that significantly affect people’s lives, such as in the domains of housing, jobs, health care, credit, education and law.

The California Senate Appropriations Committee released a report Friday estimating state and local agencies could pay hundreds of millions of dollars annually in compliance costs, with major expenses tied to audits, staffing, training, notices, appeals and legal enforcement.

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