Matters: AI in the Workplace, Privacy
In September, Gavin Newsom signed a number of latest laws into regulation, together with two payments – AB 3030 and SB 1223, designed to assist regulate well being information and generative AI within the healthcare area.
SB 1223 is a much less highlighted invoice that merely modifies the California Shopper Privacy Act’s (CCPA) definition of delicate private data to now embrace “neural information,” also referred to as “data generated by measuring the exercise of a shopper central or peripheral nervous system, and that isn’t inferred from nonneural data.” Basically, this invoice expands the protections for particular person’s non-public well being care information by including protections for neural information, which is data obtained instantly from an individual’s physique.
The second invoice, AB 3030, seeks to control generative AI which is a type of AI that “can generate derived artificial content material, together with photos, movies, audio, textual content, and different digital content material.” Basically, such a AI is skilled to create new information. This new invoice seeks to strike a steadiness within the healthcare area by permitting the usage of generative AI whereas additionally placing protecting measures in place. The invoice’s writer believes that generative AI in healthcare might help rework medical analysis, affected person care, and prognosis.
This invoice applies solely to well being services, clinics, doctor’s workplaces, or workplaces of group follow that make the most of this know-how to create verbal or written affected person communications about affected person’s medical data.
If one of many designated services makes use of this know-how, it should embrace a disclaimer to tell the affected person that the communication was created utilizing generative AI. Not solely is the usage of a disclaimer required, however the communication should additionally embrace clear directions on how a affected person can contact a human well being care supplier or worker of the relevant facility. The one exception to needing the disclosure and clear directions is that if the communication ready by the generative AI is learn and reviewed by a human licensed or licensed well being care supplier. This invoice’s goal seems to be that sufferers perceive that these messages, whether or not audio, visible, or written, are created by generative AI and not an actual individual. This invoice follows the development of making extra laws and transparency surrounding the use and implementation of AI.
Total, AB 3030 follows the latest traits of making new laws surrounding the usage of AI.