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California Attorney General issues two advisories applying existing law to AI

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Source: California Attorney General: Legal advisories on the application of California law to AIAlso reported by Holland & Knight

Attorney General Rob Bonta issued two legal advisories on 13 January 2025. One explains how California consumer protection, civil rights, competition, data protection and election misinformation laws apply to developers and users of AI, and lists new AI laws effective 1 January 2025. The second tells healthcare entities to test, validate and audit AI systems and to tell patients how AI is used, including whether their data trains it.

Why it matters

Companies and hospitals using AI in California were told the state Attorney General will enforce existing consumer, civil-rights and privacy laws against AI products now.

When
13 Jan 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0090
Who
California Department of Justice; Rob Bonta

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from California Attorney General and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0090: “California Attorney General issues two advisories applying existing law to AI.” wheresthe.ai, 13 Jan 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-ca-ag-ai-legal-advisories-2025-01/ (source: California Attorney General: Legal advisories on the application of California law to AI).

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