Anti-AI Luddites are on the rise in California

Artificial intelligence may be all the rage these days, but you would never know it, given the flurry of anti-AI legislation proposed in Sacramento. The fate of the industry may rely on a fight between two competing California values: the embrace of technological innovation and the government’s insatiable desire to regulate everything to death.

There have been dozens of AI-related bills proposed in California in just the past couple of years. This anti-AI fervor may be puzzling in a state...