California seeks new guardrails on automated AI systems

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In California, the state Senate has voted in favor of a so-called AI Bill of Rights, which would establish new guardrails around automated decision systems. To learn more about them, Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Kate Brennan, associate director of the think tank AI Now Institute.

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1:22.0	AI is deployed in what are known as automated decision systems, or ADS, for short.
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1:37.9	In California, the state senate has voted in favor of a so-called AI Bill of Rights.
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