Code and Compliance: Split Perspectives on California Frontier AI Laws Link to heading

I will be doing a review of current California laws relating to Frontier AI companies and models. My focus will be on making this information readable for both policymakers and tech people. The document will be written in such a way that the information will be divided into two sections: one for policymakers and non-technical people, explaining what everything means, why it matters and where the technical gaps are in language friendly to non-technical people and one for the technical people at Frontier AI labs who are looking to better understand how California legislation impacts them and their work.

My original idea was write a report (see below) summarising what I found but Josh Landes had a great idea to do a demo of something. I’m therefore going to still review the CA laws but create some kind of visual representation to share it. My first steps will be to read the laws, then determine what kind of demo to do and finally create the demo itself.

The information will be provided both in pdf and web form. The web version will have additional content in the form of visual components that show compliance and progress.

The structure for both web and text will be:

• Title page
• Table of contents
• Executive summary
  • For technical readers
  • For policy readers
• Part I: Legislative Overview
  • Section A: For Technical Readers
  • Section B: For Policy Readers
• Part II: Technical Implementation Analysis (for technical audience)
• Part III: Policy Gap Analysis (for policy makers)
• Part IV: Compliance Tracking