Claim · 2025-09-29 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

California SB 53 states in part what the law question “Risk evaluation” asks.

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California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chaptered → states provision → Risk evaluation

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Claim and evidence

California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chapteredstates provision ↓Risk evaluation

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Required action · provision ID comparison-law-q05
Subject version: Chaptered (Stats. 2025, ch. 138) · Published 2025-09-29 · Effective 2026-01-01
Date: 2025-09-29 · publication Records dated 2025 →

Scope and limitsThe framework, which a large frontier developer must implement and comply with, describes how the developer approaches defining and assessing thresholds to identify and assess whether a frontier model has capabilities that could pose a catastrophic risk (§ 22757.12(a)(2)). The text sets no free-standing duty to test each model; § 22757.12(c)(2)(A)–(B) requires summaries of assessments of catastrophic risks conducted pursuant to the framework, and § 22757.12(d) summaries of any assessment of catastrophic risk from internal use. Search for the rest of the criterion: SEC. 2 in full (Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22757.10–22757.16); SEC. 4 (Lab. Code §§ 1107–1107.2). Terms searched: “assess”, “evaluat”, “test”. Passages read and not counted: SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(c)(2)(A): Requires summaries of assessments in the transparency report; it presupposes assessments under the framework rather than imposing them. SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(d): Transmission of summaries of any internal-use assessment to the Office of Emergency Services; no duty to assess is stated. Paraphrased with its locator, not quoted: quoting it would pass the source’s quotation limit, or the source’s length is not known. Stated, partly: the passage has what the question’s criterion asks for, in a weaker form than the criterion’s own words. What the instrument’s text states, from the expression read. A cell records what the text requires of the parties it defines: not whether any developer falls within them, or complied.

The evidence 02

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SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

California State Legislature · 2025-09-29

Archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

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Paraphrase

The framework must describe how the developer approaches defining and assessing thresholds used to identify and assess whether a frontier model has capabilities that could pose a catastrophic risk.

Location in source SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(a)(2)

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

Source details and check notes

Authors: California Legislature
Version: Chaptered version dated 09/29/25, inspected live 2026-10-04; quote also matched in the 2025-09-30 capture. Publisher as printed on the inspected expression: California Legislature (California Legislative Information, Office of Legislative Counsel). Retrieved again for the laws-compared candidate pack on 2026-11-01 as one member of the Legislative Counsel’s database file (pubinfo_2025.zip), because the Legislature’s website refused the request (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c); the pack’s quotations were matched in it, and again in fresh retrievals of 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04.
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Accessed: 2026-10-04
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025). Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-09-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.
Attribution: California Legislature, SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025).
Reuse: Official government text; no redistribution licence asserted. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, laws compared (research/laws-compared), cell ca-sb53:Q05. Paraphrase of a passage that matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-01 (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c) and again on 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04. Not quoted: SB 53 is at its quotation limit (maintainer decision 1a of 2026-11-03). A cross-family machine check (2026-11-02, item 17) answered this cell blind and agreed with the pack. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

California State Legislature · 2025-09-29

Archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

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Source excerpt

“A large frontier developer shall write, implement, comply with, and clearly and conspicuously publish on its internet website a frontier AI framework”

Location in source SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(a), opening clause

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

Source details and check notes

Authors: California Legislature
Version: Chaptered version dated 09/29/25, inspected live 2026-10-04; quote also matched in the 2025-09-30 capture. Publisher as printed on the inspected expression: California Legislature (California Legislative Information, Office of Legislative Counsel). Retrieved again for the laws-compared candidate pack on 2026-11-01 as one member of the Legislative Counsel’s database file (pubinfo_2025.zip), because the Legislature’s website refused the request (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c); the pack’s quotations were matched in it, and again in fresh retrievals of 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-04
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025). Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-09-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.
Attribution: California Legislature, SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025).
Reuse: Official government text; no redistribution licence asserted. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, laws compared (research/laws-compared), cell ca-sb53:Q05. The quotation (22 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-01 (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c) and again in fresh retrievals on 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The same words are quoted in an earlier record of the dataset, so they add nothing to the source’s quotation count. No human editorial review.

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Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Dated as the text compared is dated: the date of issue of its version, “Chaptered (Stats. 2025, ch. 138)”.

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