Newsom Orders State to Strengthen AI Safety Laws

PYMNTS noted that California Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted an executive order on Sept. 18 to assemble national specialists aimed at strengthening the state’s artificial intelligence safety and security statutes.

The decree requires this panel of experts to deliver a foundational document within two months. The directive compels leading AI companies to accommodate an independent verification entity on their sites for inspection and assessment tasks. It also obligates the creation of a protocol for terminating frontier systems and updating the classification of critical safety breaches to include loss-of-control scenarios.

“The federal government’s abject failure to create any form of meaningful AI oversight or accountability should alarm every American, especially when AI CEOs themselves are begging for regulation,” Newsom stated in the release. “We’re not waiting to act; we’re going to speed up our work on substantial and responsible AI oversight before it’s too late.”

The publication earlier covered news on Sept. 11 that the governor enacted two pieces of legislation creating the nation’s inaugural structure for external AI verification entities and inspectors.