{"id":244780,"date":"2026-03-31T08:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:59:14","slug":"what-to-know-about-californias-executive-order-on-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244780\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About California\u2019s Executive Order on A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind executive order<\/a> requiring safety and privacy guardrails from artificial intelligence companies that contract with the state.<\/p>\n

California has been a leader in tech lawmaking, and was the first state to pass a law mandating safety and transparency<\/a> from the biggest A.I. companies. Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, signed the order partly as a message to President Trump, who has been trying to bat down state attempts to regulate A.I.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s in his executive order.<\/p>\n

Contractor Vetting<\/p>\n

Companies vying for government contracts will first have to explain their safety and privacy policies around A.I. The state will look carefully at policies on how the companies prevent exploitation of individuals, including the spread of child sexual abuse materials.<\/p>\n

The government will also consider whether A.I. models, the technology that powers chatbots and other tools, are used to monitor individuals or are used to block certain speech. Companies should also explain how they are avoiding bias in their systems.<\/p>\n

Independence From Federal Contracting Standards<\/p>\n

If the federal government designates a company a supply chain risk, which the Pentagon has recently done with the A.I. start-up Anthropic<\/a>, California will conduct its own assessment. If the company isn\u2019t determined to be a risk, the state may allow it to remain a contractor.<\/p>\n

This is significant because the Pentagon\u2019s legal tussle with Anthropic, which had provided the Defense Department with A.I. technologies for use on classified systems, has exposed a rift in the administration\u2019s pursuit of A.I. for war use. The Pentagon terminated its contract with Anthropic after the company said the government could not use its models for mass domestic surveillance and the deployment of autonomous weaponry.<\/p>\n

Watermarking Requirement<\/p>\n

The governor also called on state officials to begin watermarking A.I.-generated or manipulated videos that they create.<\/p>\n

The technique is aimed at guarding against the spread of misinformation. It would also allow consumers to tell the difference between human-generated and A.I.-generated images produced by the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2080,7,9,8,109597,109594,12137,109595,12139,3290,109596,4510],"class_list":["post-244780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-executive-orders-and-memorandums","tag-gavin","tag-government-contracts-and-procurement","tag-governors-us","tag-newsom","tag-regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244780","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=244780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}