Tech Oversight California advocates for legislation that advances our mission of creating a healthier internet for Californians. Bills we supported in the 2025–2026 California State Legislature session include:
AB 56 – SOCIAL MEDIA WARNING LABELS (BAUER-KAHAN)
- Requires a social media platform to display a certain black box warning to a user at a set frequency each day the user initially accesses the social media platform.
AB 316 – A.I. DEFENSES (KRELL)
- Prohibits a defendant that developed or used artificial intelligence, as defined, from asserting a defense that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused harm to the plaintiff.
AB 325 – A.I. PRICING ALGORITHMS (AGUIAR-CURRY)
- Updates California’s antitrust laws to combat the growing use of digital pricing algorithms for illegal price fixing, ensuring that modern technology does not become a tool for anti-competitive behavior that harms consumers and small businesses.
AB 566 – OPT-OUT PREFERENCE SIGNAL (LOWENTHAL)
- Requires browsers to include a setting that allows consumers to easily send a universal opt-out preference signal.
AB 853 – CALIFORNIA AI TRANSPARENCY ACT (WICKS)
- Requires large online platforms to develop a way for users to easily access provenance data of uploaded content.
AB 1064 – THE LEADING ETHICAL AI DEVELOPMENT (LEAD) FOR KIDS ACT (BAUER-KAHAN)
- Prohibits AI products that pose a clear risk for children, including companion chatbots that provide emotional support and close relationships with underage users and the use of emotion detection or social scoring products that would impact children.
SB 53 – CALIFORNIA FRONTIER AI TRANSPARENCY (WIENER)
Establishes a consortium tasked with developing a framework for a public cloud computing cluster that advances the ethical development and deployment of AI for the public good; creates protections for whistleblowers working with specified AI models when reporting on “critical risks”; and requires developers to provide processes for anonymous reporting of activities posing such risks.