The European Union has opened an office in San Francisco and dispatched a tech envoy to coordinate with California lawmakers on AI regulation. The EU tech envoy, Gerard de Graaf, has made at least six trips to Sacramento in two months to meet with key legislators. Three California bills (Bauer-Kahan on discrimination testing, Wiener on generative AI, and Wicks on watermarking) align broadly with the EU's newly passed AI Act on a risk-based approach and both frameworks call for impact assessments and watermarking of AI outputs. De Graaf stated that the three California bills together cover 70-80 percent of the EU AI Act's scope. This regulatory alignment between two large, influential markets creates de facto standards that companies will need to adopt globally to serve both jurisdictions.
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