Technology

With input from a Stanford lab, Common Sense Media concludes the AI systems can exacerbate problems like addiction and self harm.

The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.

For now, the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility will use AI to comply with regulations. But some lawmakers think additional guardrails are needed for future uses.

The permit lays the groundwork toward a driverless taxi service. Tesla has said it will launch such a service in Austin, Texas in June.

A group of academic luminaries formed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year is earning praise for its AI policy recommendations.

President Trump is taking a very different approach to AI than the Biden administration, and it could affect how California regulates artificial intelligence.

AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination.

The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success.

A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers.

Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.