Bill > SB1159

This bill clarifies that terms like "person," "interested person," "participant," and "member of the public" in various California transparency and governance laws, including the California Public Records Act, Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, Ralph M. Brown Act, Political Reform Act of 1974, Administrative Procedure Act, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), refer only to natural persons or legally recognized entities capable of genuine participation, and explicitly exclude artificial intelligence (AI) systems, autonomous agents, robots, or other nonhuman entities, whether physical or digital. The bill defines artificial intelligence as a system that can infer from input to generate outputs influencing environments, and states that this exclusion is necessary to prevent AI systems from overwhelming government agencies with automated interactions that simulate human participation but lack genuine deliberation, thereby preserving the integrity of democratic processes and public resources.

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