California emerges as AI governance leader, outpacing the EU AI Act
LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-09-16
AI governance expert Luiza Jarovsky notes that after Jacob Coxon's viral post on AI's existential risk, recent days have brought growing calls for AI regulation, human oversight, and global governance.
She argues that rather than obsessing over the EU AI Act—which she views as a weak framework and a missed opportunity—California is where real change and leadership have emerged in recent years. The most effective measures are laws imposing transparency and accountability requirements on AI providers and deployers: transparency lets the public, NGOs, auditors, and lawmakers react promptly, while accountability subjects frontier developers and the whole AI value chain to greater scrutiny.
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