{"id":221957,"date":"2026-03-16T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:25:09","slug":"berkeley-adopts-policy-focused-on-ethical-human-centered-use-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221957\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Adopts Policy Focused On Ethical, Human-Centered Use Of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkeley City Council has adopted &#8220;The Berkeley Rule,&#8221; a new policy framework for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in city government, city officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The policy sets 10 principles for using AI in government operations, with an emphasis on transparency, accountability, and human oversight.<\/p>\n<p>City officials said the framework is designed as a practical guide for governments and signals the technology sector to innovate for the public.<\/p>\n<p>The policy also includes safeguards for high-impact AI systems used in areas such as housing, hiring and public safety, requiring public accountability and human review, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Ben Bartlett authored the measure, which was co-authored by Councilmember Igor Tregub.<\/p>\n<p> Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berkeley City Council has adopted &#8220;The Berkeley Rule,&#8221; a new policy framework for the ethical use of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-221957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}