California legislature passes several AI bills on safety risks, worker neural data and youth protection
At the end of its session, the California legislature passed several AI-related bills, including one on assessing AI safety risks and one banning AI tracking of workers' neural data. The governor, who has vetoed similar bills before, still has to decide whether to sign them.
Who is affected and how
- compliance specialist
- Companies providing services in California need to track which bills become law.
- corporate lawyer
- Processing neural data in the workplace may become prohibited, so HR-technology contracts should be reviewed.
Sources
- Reining in Big Tech: How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media - Los Angeles Timeslatimes.com · Sep 1, 2026
- Reigning In Big Tech: How California Lawmakers Plan To Regulate AI And Social Media | Binghamton Heraldbinghamtonherald.com · Sep 1, 2026
- How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media | Benton Institute for Broadband & Societybenton.org · Sep 1, 2026
- California legislature approves bill to assess AI safety risks | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulationmlex.com · Aug 31, 2026
- California lawmakers just passed Adam’s Law, a new chatbot safety bill. Here’s what it would dotransparencycoalition.ai · Sep 3, 2026
- California Passes Bill to Ban AI Tracking of Worker Neural Data - Bloomberg Law Newsnews.bloomberglaw.com · Aug 31, 2026
- OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safetyopenai.com · Aug 31, 2026
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