California is riding a wave of Big Tech legislation, with the state's leaders signing several technology-related bills in quick succession.
The first, referred to as the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act , made headlines as a history-making state-level law ensuring more robust generative AI safety standards. The safety and transparency bill mandates AI labs disclose potential harm created by the rising technology and disclose their safety protocols as proof that companies are designing AI systems to mitigate catastrophic risk. The requirements are enforced by the state's Office of Emergency Services. It applies to companies that reach a certain threshold of computing power reserved exclusively for model training or those that make at least $500 million in annual rev