Public postsecondary education: generative artificial intelligence systems: procurement standards: training

The law sets a statewide process to protect students, employees, privacy, and academic integrity when public colleges adopt GenAI tools.

What the law does ​

• Requires the California Community Colleges and California State University, and requests the University of California, to form a cross-system working group on responsible GenAI procurement and training.
• Requires the group to recommend procurement standards and user training by January 1, 2028.
• Requires recommended standards to address safety risks, harmful or illegal outputs, bias, excessive flattery, vendor incident reporting, data practices, training-data disclosure, privacy and civil-liberties concerns, and exploitative labor practices.
• Requires training on system policies and academic integrity, privacy practices, and GenAI’s potential for inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading outputs.
• Requires annual training reviews and updates, plus training-completion records kept for at least four years.
• Until procurement standards are adopted, requires a report within 60 days of each systemwide GenAI contract describing the product, selection process, training, and vendor data practices.

Who it affects ​

• Students, faculty, and staff who use procured GenAI systems at California Community Colleges and California State University.
• The Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
• The University of California, which is requested rather than required to participate.
• GenAI vendors seeking systemwide public-college contracts.

Context ​

The University of California is requested, not mandated, to carry out the law’s provisions.