Pluribus News highlights Transparency Coalition’s work on AI legislation
Transparency Coalition co-founder Jai Jaisimha testified earlier this year on behalf of SB 942, the California AI Transparency Act. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in late September.
Oct. 11, 2024 — A feature article published this morning in Pluribus News, the digital news site focused on state legislative policy, captured the rising momentum around AI-related legislation and the Transparency Coalition’s role in crafting appropriate safeguards.
“The 17 artificial intelligence bills California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed last month capped a year of states racing past Congress to lay down some of the booming technology’s first guardrails,” wrote veteran legislative reporter Austin Jenkins. “The momentum in states to protect against AI’s potential harms without hindering innovation is likely to only pick up in 2025.”
“The early action on AI signals that state lawmakers do not want to be caught flat-footed as they were with consumer data privacy and social media,” Jenkins added. “It also sends a message to industry that states are unwilling to wait for Congress to act.”
The article recognized the Transparency Coalition’s ongoing work crafting model legislation and identifying potential bill authors in more than a half-dozen states, including Washington State, to sponsor them next year.
“We need to build trust in what’s going into these models and we need to build trust in what’s real and what’s not real,” TCAI co-founder Rob Eleveld told Jenkins. “These are reasonable guardrails.”