CAIDP California

About CAIDP California

 

CAIDP California advances CAIDP’s work on AI and digital policy in California, with a focus on AI legislation, automated decision-making, transparency, accountability, civil rights, privacy, and the public interest.

 

CAIDP California was launched in 2024 to strengthen CAIDP’s engagement with California lawmakers and agencies and to help ensure that AI policy in the state promotes a better society — more fair, more just, and more accountable — based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law.

 

California is one of the most important jurisdictions for AI governance. CAIDP California provides nonpartisan analysis, testimony, and recommendations to state lawmakers and public agencies on AI systems that affect consumers, workers, communities, and democratic institutions.

Topics

  • Civil rights and employment
  • Privacy and automated decision-making
  • Transparency and provenance
  • Accountability and liability 
  • Energy and infrastructure

CAIDP California - Latest news

CAIDP California Participants

Evelina Ayrapetyan — CAIDP CA Lead / Policy Lead, CAIDP California

Christabel Randolph — CAIDP Associate Director

Adam Komenski - Research Assistant

Adrianna Tan — Research Assistant,

Adam Komenski — Research Assistant

Elizabeth Barwick — Research Assistant

Nasrin Lin - 

Neesha Patel - Law Clerk

Nienyin (Nasrin) Lin — Law Clerk

Rafael Gonzalez — Research Assistant

Taja Nadeau — Law Clerk

Vincent Cortese - Law Clerk

CAIDP California AI Events

CAIDP Commentary on California and AI

Proposed Moratorium on US State AI Laws is Short-Sighted and Ill-Conceived,  Tech Policy Press, May 21, 2025, Marc Rotenberg, Merve Hickok, and Christabel Randolph

The California Effect: AI Redux, Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe),  vol. 2, issue 4, pp. 360-63 (2025), Marc Rotenberg

United States · California AI Policy: A Review of the 2025 Legislative Outcomes, Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe),  vol. 2, issue 4, pp. 417-22 (2025), Christabel Randolph

 

About CAIDP

 

The Center for AI and Digital Policy is an independent, non-profit research and education organization. CAIDP advises governments and international organizations on AI and digital policy, trains the next generation of AI policy leaders, publishes the CAIDP AI and Democratic Values Index, and promotes AI governance based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law.

CAIDP California Statements

Civil rights and employment

 

CAIDP California speaks at Civil Rights Council about Automated Decisionmaking and Employment, July 18, 2024 (California Civil Rights Council)

  • Testimony of Evelina Ayrapetyan, on behalf of CAIDP, and related comment letter urging disclosure, human oversight, impact assessments, and a broader definition of algorithmic decision systems in employment.

 

CAIDP advises California Civil Rights Council on AI and Employment, October 17, 2024 (California Civil Rights Department / Civil Rights Council)

  • Detailed comments on modified employment regulations, calling for disclosure and opt-out rights, contestability, human oversight, pre-deployment impact assessments, and definitional changes.

 

Privacy and automated decision-making

 

CAIDP testifies before California Privacy Protection Agency on AI and Automated Decisionmaking. January 14, 2025 (California Privacy Protection Agency)

  • Testimony of Evelina Ayrapetyan, on behalf of CAIDP, supporting stronger transparency, disclosure, contestability, human oversight, data minimization, incident reporting, PETs, clear AI definitions, independent socio-technical evaluations, and a ban on using children’s data to train automated decision-making systems.

CAIDP testimony at CPPA public comment hearing on ADMT rulemaking, February 19, 2025 (California Privacy Protection Agency)

 

  • Testimony of Nisha Patel, on behalf of CAIDP,  urging purpose limitation, data minimization, and stronger privacy protections for ADMT under the CCPA

CAIDP Comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency on the modified text of proposed CCPA regulations regarding Cybersecurity Audits, Risk Assessment and Automated Decision-Making Technology, June 2, 2025 (California Privacy Protection Agency)

 

  • Formal written comments supporting the draft ADMT regulation and urging independent expert evaluations, incident reporting, data minimization, restored transparency requirements, and restored opt-out rights.

CAIDP advises California Privacy Agency on Automated Decisionmaking, September 25, 2025 (California Privacy Protection Agency)

  • Follow-up recommendations favoring stronger data minimization, restrictions on using children’s data to train ADMT, and required privacy-enhancing techniques.

Transparency and provenance

 

CAIDP advises California Assembly on AI Training and Data Transparency, August 19, 2024 (Assembly Committee on Cybersecurity)

  • CAIDP comments on AB 2013 supporting AI training-data transparency, broader AI definitions, explanation logic disclosures, and independent impact assessments for high-risk systems.

CAIDP and NAVA urge Governor Newsom to sign AB 2013 and SB 1047, (Governor Gavin Newsom)

  • Joint letter of CAIDP and National Association of Voice Actors urging signature of California’s AI transparency and frontier-model safety bills.

CAIDP supports California AI Transparency Act AB 2713, June 8, 2026 (Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee)

  • CAIDP statement to the Senate committee supporting provenance data that persists across the lifecycle of AI-generated content, and urging coverage of wearable and ambient capture systems without creating new surveillance pathways.

Accountability and Liability

 

CAIDP Letter of Support AB 316 — AI defenses, March 19, 2025 (Assembly Committee on Judiciary)

  • CAIDP letter supporting AB 316 to prevent defendants from claiming that autonomous AI, rather than the developer or user, caused the harm.

 

CAIDP urges California to enact AB 316, a bill to prohibit immunity for autonomous AI systems, May 17, 2025 (California State Assembly)

  • CAIDP statement to the full California State Assembly emphasizing accountability, state authority, and the risk of an “AI black hole” if liability cannot be assigned.

CAIDP urges California to enact AB 316, a bill to prohibit immunity for autonomous AI systems, May 17, 2025 (California State Assembly)

  • CAIDP statement to the full California State Assembly emphasizing accountability, state authority, and the risk of an “AI black hole” if liability cannot be assigned.

Energy and infrastructure

CAIDP and Transparency Coalition, AB 222 — Data centers: energy usage reporting and modeling, February 26, 2025 (California Assembly / Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee)

  • CAIDP comments to support for California legislation requiring better reporting and modeling of data-center energy use, framed as an AI transparency and accountability measure with environmental significance.