Statement from Assemblymember Berman Regarding the Challenge Ahead
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Marc Berman issued the following statement today:
SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblymember Marc Berman issued the following statement today:
SACRAMENTO, CA —Governor Newsom has signed AB 2876, Assemblymember Marc Berman’s (D-Menlo Park) legislation to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy into the core curriculum for all K-12 students in California. AB 2876 responds to the rapid proliferation of AI in nearly every aspect of young people’s lives, as well as the impact AI will have on their futures.
SACRAMENTO – Today Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1831, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), to criminalize the creation, distribution, and possession of artificial intelligence-generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
SACRAMENTO –Today Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) announced that Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 3158, which enables West Valley-Mission Community College District (WVMCCD) to waive tuition fees for the thousands of students living in its service area starting on January 1, 2025.
SACRAMENTO – Yesterday Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2176, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), which will expand the Office of Youth and Community Restoration’s (OYCR) authority to support a public health approach to juvenile detention.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Today Governor Gavin Newsom signed historic legislation to ban deceptive deepfakes in the run up to an election.
Increasingly, AI and political deepfakes are impacting elections around the world. In 2022, Russian hackers created an AI-manipulated video showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordering his forces to surrender. In Taiwan in 2023, fake audio was created and disseminated of a presidential candidate endorsing his opponents, which he never did.
SACRAMENTO – Tonight the Legislature passed AB 1831, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), to criminalize the creation, distribution, and possession of artificial intelligence-generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
SACRAMENTO, CA — Today the Legislature passed AB 2655, authored by Assemblymember Berman (D-Menlo Park), which will protect election integrity by requiring large online platforms to remove, after receipt of a complaint, the posting of deceptive and digitally altered or created images, audio, or video recordings meant to give the impression that a candidate or elected official d