CA AB 1064

• Authority: California
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-02-20

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Exposure to toxic content
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Loss of human agency and autonomy
• Lack of capability or robustness

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Compromise of privacy
• False or misleading information
• Competitive dynamics

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with strong focus on toxic content exposure (1.2), privacy compromise (2.1), false information (3.1), fraud and manipulation (4.3), overreliance and unsafe use (5.1), loss of agency (5.2), competitive dynamics (6.4), and lack of robustness (7.3). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination & toxicity, human-computer interaction, and AI system safety domains.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically companies that develop and operate AI-powered companion chatbots and conversational AI systems. It may also apply to other sectors that deploy such chatbots to interact with children.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding California state statute with mandatory obligations, civil penalties, and enforcement mechanisms through both the Attorney General and private right of action.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: California State Legislature; The people of the State of California
• Summary: The document is a California state legislative act enacted by the people of California through their legislature, as indicated by the opening phrase and legislative structure.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Entities: Operators of companion chatbots
• Summary: The statute explicitly targets 'operators' defined as persons, partnerships, corporations, business entities, or government agencies that make companion chatbots available to users, which encompasses both developers and deployers of such systems.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
• Entities: California Attorney General; Children (or parents/guardians acting on their behalf)
• Summary: The statute provides dual enforcement mechanisms: public enforcement through the Attorney General and private enforcement through affected children and their parents/guardians.

Monitor

• Summary: The statute does not establish a specific monitoring body or ongoing oversight mechanism. Enforcement is reactive through legal actions rather than proactive monitoring.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

No lifecycle stages identified.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

No technical scope terms identified.